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Authorised form of nameHeyrovsky; Jaroslav (1890 - 1967)
Dates1890 - 1967
Place of birthPrague, Czech Republic
Date of birth20 December 1890
Place of deathPrague, Czech Republic
Date of death27/03/1967
Research fieldElectrochemistry
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1959
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election08/04/1965
SourceSources:
DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 167-191, plate, by J A V Butler and P Zuman
CodeNA2238
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1965/35Heyrovsky, Jaroslav: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/28/102Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'The electrode potentials and the energy of solvation' by Jaroslav Heyrovsky[March 1924]
RR/27/73Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'The significance of the electrode potential' by Jaroslav HeyrovskýNovember 1922
RR/27/74Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'The significance of the electrode potential' by Jaroslav HeyrovskýSeptember 1922
NLB/65/823Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS11 January 1924
RR/30/70Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'A note on the significance of the electrode potential' by Jaroslav Heyrovsky1 March 1924
NLB/65/766Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS21 December 1923
RR/30/71Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'A note on the significance of the electrode potential' by Jaroslav Heyrovsky[March 1924]
RR/28/103Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'The electrode potentials and the energy of solvation' by Jaroslav Heyrovsky[January 1924]
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