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Jaroslav Heyrovský
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Jaroslav Heyrovský

Inventor · born December 20, 1890 · died 1967

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Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography.

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  1. ~69Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1959

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