CHEMIST

Jaroslav Heyrovský

1890 - 1967

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Jaroslav Heyrovský (Czech: [ˈjaroslav ˈɦɛjrofskiː] ; 20 December 1890 – 27 March 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaroslav Heyrovský has received more than 127,286 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Jaroslav Heyrovský is the 147th most popular chemist (up from 245th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 154th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 147 out of 602. Before him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Sune Bergström, John Newlands, Christian B. Anfinsen, James Dewar, and Jean-Baptiste Dumas. After him are Arthur Kornberg, Ahmed Zewail, Edmond H. Fischer, Julius Axelrod, Yves Chauvin, and Georg Ernst Stahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 36. Before him are Giorgio Morandi, Hermann Joseph Muller, Karl Harrer, Rachele Mussolini, Eduard Dietl, and Hans-Valentin Hube. After him are Elsa Schiaparelli, Anthony Fokker, Groucho Marx, Beniamino Gigli, Ronald Fisher, and Nikolai Trubetzkoy. Among people deceased in 1967, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 34. Before him are Shigeru Yoshida, Norman Angell, Hermann Joseph Muller, Brian Epstein, Robert van Gulik, and Héctor Scarone. After him are Ossip Zadkine, Totò, John Cockcroft, Harald Quandt, Ejnar Hertzsprung, and Vladimir Bartol.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 104 out of 1,200. Before him are Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), Balthasar Neumann (1687), Vratislaus II of Bohemia (1035), Konrad Henlein (1898), Eduard Bloch (1872), and Jan Neruda (1834). After him are Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), Emil Škoda (1839), Josef Suk (1874), Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (1856), Mojmir I of Moravia (795), and Martina Navratilova (1956).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 3. Before him are Gerty Cori (1896), and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896). After him are Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), Otto Wichterle (1913), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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