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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaroslav Heyrovský is the 131st most popular chemist (up from 147th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 104th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 131 out of 602. Before him are S. P. L. Sørensen, George Andrew Olah, William Lipscomb, Paul Berg, Christian B. Anfinsen, and William E. Moerner. After him are Richard R. Ernst, Joseph Proust, John Cornforth, Harold Urey, Wilfrid Voynich, and Gerhard Ertl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 24. Before him are Stan Laurel, Man Ray, Bohuslav Martinů, Walther Funk, Carlos Gardel, and El Lissitzky. After him are Robert Ley, Franz Werfel, Kurt Student, Maria Goretti, Hermann Joseph Muller, and Victor Lustig. Among people deceased in 1967, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 26. Before him are André Maurois, Jack Ruby, Richard Kuhn, Ilya Ehrenburg, Gordon Allport, and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. After him are Rodion Malinovsky, Johannes Itten, Casimir Funk, Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, and Wolfgang Köhler.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Heyrovský ranks 65 out of 1,200. Before him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), Josef Masopust (1931), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), and Karl Hermann Frank (1898). After him are Karl Renner (1870), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Karel Gott (1939), Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901), Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), and Bohumil Hrabal (1914).

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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), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Otto Wichterle (1913), Hans Tropsch (1889), Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).

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