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CHEMIST

Jaroslav Heyrovský

1890 - 1967

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Jaroslav Heyrovský (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslav ˈɦɛjrofskiː] ) (December 20, 1890 – March 27, 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his invention and development of the polarographic methods of analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaroslav Heyrovský has received more than 120,069 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Jaroslav Heyrovský is the 245th most popular chemist, the 154th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 160th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 245 out of 509. Before him are Joseph L. Goldstein, Henri Victor Regnault, Ida Noddack, Hermann Kolbe, Edward W. Morley, and Donald J. Cram. After him are Vincent du Vigneaud, John Polanyi, Michael Polanyi, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, and Thomas Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 52. Before him are Jacques Ibert, Rose Kennedy, Georgy Pyatakov, Grigory Kulik, Walter Krüger, and Li Zongren. After him are Frank Martin, Victor Serge, Kurt Tucholsky, Moša Pijade, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, and Erich Kleiber. Among people deceased in 1967, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 55. Before him are Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Gus Grissom, Forough Farrokhzad, Carson McCullers, Hugo Gernsback, and Luigi Tenco. After him are Ed White, Zinaida Serebriakova, Julien Duvivier, Vladimir Bartol, Julius Schaub, and Paul Muni.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 154 out of 973. Before him are Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932), Herbert Lom (1917), Barbara Bouchet (1943), Antonín Zápotocký (1884), and Josef Ressel (1793). After him are Blanche of Valois (1316), František Plánička (1904), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860), and Věra Chytilová (1929).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 5. Before him are Gerty Cori (1896), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Otto Wichterle (1913), and Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821). After him are Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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