CHEMICAL SCIENCES - personal papers

 

Johann Böhm (*1895, +1952) - physical chemist, also photochemistry and radiography, 13 boxes + 1 container, 1905-1952, inventory (for 4 boxes)

Rudolf Brdička (*1906, +1970) - physical chemist, Director of the CSAS Institute of Physical Chemistry, probably the most famous pupil of J. Heyrovský, mostly engaged in biomedical applications of polarography (including Brdička filtrate reactions for the diagnosis of hepatic and tumerous disorders). 25 boxes, 1920-1970, unarranged

Rudolf Bretschneider (*1912, +1985) - saccharides technology, 4 boxes, 1960s-1980s, unarranged

Jaroslav Heyrovský (*1890, +1967) - physical chemist, 83 boxes, 1896-1980, published inventory - The Personal Papers of Jaroslav Heyrovský. Práce z dějin ČSAV, series B, vol. 4, 1989, 365 pp.


 

 

 

Jaroslav Kastner (*1877, +1969) - chemist, 1 box, 1878-1959, take-over list

Josef Knop (*1885, +1964) - chemist (analytical chemistry), 3 boxes, 1880s -1964, take-over list

Jindřich Křepelka (*1890, +1964) - chemist (inorganic a analytical chemistry), 3 boxes, 1901-1964, inventory

Stanislav Landa (*1898, +1981) - eminent Czech chemist (esp. the chemistry of hydrocarbons, fuel technologies), discoverer of the tricyclic hydrocarbon - adamantane, 1934 - 1945 Director of the Research Institute for Chemical Technology at the Baťa works in Zlín, where Otto Wichterle also worked. 8 boxes, first half of the 20 th cent., unarranged

Jaroslav Milbauer (*1880, +1959) - chemist (inorganic and analytical chemistry, photochemistry), 12 boxes + 6 card indexes, 1773-1965, inventory

Albert Regner (*1905, +1970) - chemist, electrochemistry, 7 boxes, 1911-1970, inventory

Vladimír Staněk (*1879, +1940) - chemist (analytical chemistry, sugar manufacture), 2 boxes + 1 container, 1879-1940, unarranged

Vojtěch Šafařík - astronomer and chemist

Karel Šandera (*1903, +1959) - chemist (chemical engineering, sugar manufacture), 34 boxes, 1921-1959, inventory

František Šorm (*1913, +1980) - leading Czech chemist (organic chemist, biochemistry), Director of the CSAS Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1957 - 1962 CSAS Deputy President, 1962 - 1969 CSAS President, later in consequence "normalization" process relieved of all administrative positions at CSAS. 17 boxes,1962-1969, unarranged

Vítězslav Veselý (*1877, +1964) - chemist (organic chemistry, technology of plastics, fats and dyestuffs), 2 boxes, 1870s-1960s, unarranged

Josef Velíšek - physical chemist, also technical physicist

Otto Wichterle (*1913, +1998) - chemist (organic chemistry, macromolecular chemistry), 17 boxes, 1931-1993, inventory list.

Apparatus devised by Otto Wichterle using a children's building kit on which he poured his first gel contact lenses (photo from the ASCR Office - Press Department archives)