NOBEL PRIZE FOR POLAROGRAPHY

In course of the second World War was polarography becoming one of the leading methods of analytical chemistry. It found applications in metallurgy, in chemical and farmaceutical industry, in medicine, in food industry, in geology and ore research, in study of transuranium elements and in other fields of human activities.

Production of polarographs was started in various countries. The number of publications dealing with polarography was increasing by thousands every year.

After the war under Heyrovský's directorship Polarographic Institute was founded in Prague which in 1952 became part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1959 Jaroslav Heyrovský was awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery and development of the polarographic method.