Jaroslav Heyrovsky:
Jaroslav Heyrovsky was a Czech chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
December 20, 1890 in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
Death:
March 27, 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Claim to Fame:
Heyrovsky was a Czech chemist who was awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of polarography. Polarography is an analytical tool that uses a dropping mercury electrode (DME) to investigate the effects of varying currents and potentials of a compound. It was the first successful voltametry technique and the beginning of a new method of analytical chemistry. Voltametry is a useful technique to use as a sensor to monitor chemical levels remotely in industrial, biological or hazardous situations.
