Call Number:

01.002

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

1 linear feet (1 box; ca. 7 print photographs)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Collection or item title, Othmer Library of Chemical History, Science History Institute..

Date:

1924-1960 (inclusive)

Form:

Photographs, Photograph collections, and Archival materials

Abstract:

Photographs from the career of Jaroslav Heyrovsky, a Czech physical chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate.

Jaroslav Heyrovsky (1890-1967) was a Czech chemist who developed the polarographic method in 1922. Three years later Heyrovsky built the first polarograph with his Japanese colleague, Masuzo Shikata. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his discovery and development of polarographic methods of analysis.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1071725~S6

The collection is comprised of off-prints/photographs representing Jaroslav Heyrovsky's career. Photographs consist of a portrait of Heyrovsky, a group portrait with other scientists at a castle in Prague and the group of Nobel Prize Laureates from 1959. Along with the images, included are a booklet called Principle of Polarometric and an article entitled "Trends in Polarography" from Science magazine dated July 15, 1960. Of note are photographs of the diploma Heyrovsky received for the Nobel Prize in 1959 and the first polarograph created using his design in 1924.