On This Day - Dec 20 : Jaroslav Heyrovskȳ was born

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He was awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of polarography, an analytical tool that uses a dropping mercury (Hg) electrode to investigate the effects of varying currents and potentials of a compound.

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