Jaroslav Heyrovský

Jaroslav Heyrovský 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. His main field of work was polarography.

20 December 1890

Born on the same birth date (20 December 1890): Yvonne Arnaud

Born on the same birth day (20 December): Aziz Nesin • Bouabdellah Tahri • Elsie de Wolfe • Grant Flower • James Thomson (cell biologist) • John Hillerman • Karl Wendlinger • Mala Powers • Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Martín Demichelis • Nalo Hopkinson • Nicole de Boer • Rik Van Looy • Sidney Hook • Sonny Perdue • Väinö Linna • Yvonne Arnaud

Born in the same month (December 1890): Adolfo Ruiz Cortines • Bohuslav Martinů • Carlos Gardel • David Bomberg • Dion Fortune • Edwin Howard Armstrong • Fritz Lang • Harry Babcock (pole vaulter) • Hermann Joseph Muller • Konstantinos Georgakopoulos • Laura Salverson • Mark Tobey • Noel Odell • Percy Hodge • Prince Joachim of Prussia • Rudolf Schlichter • Yoshio Nishina • Yvonne Arnaud