100 Years Since the Birth of Polarography

On 9 and 10 February we commemorate the two days in which polarography was born. And this year marks exactly one hundred years since this major historical milestone.

We bring you, our esteemed readers, a greeting sent to our editorial office by Dr. Raja Heyrovska, the daughter-in-law of Prof. Jaroslav Heyrovský.

I would like to send this short greetings to Chem. Listy:

"Happy century of polarography"

Hundred years ago on February 10, Jaroslav Heyrovsky used renewable dropping mercury electrode as a tool for obtaining the current, voltage curve for dissolved solutes in solutions. Thus, polarography was born and has now stood a century as a unique electrochemical method thanks to the renewable fresh metal/solution interface which makes the current, voltage curves absolutely reproducible.

May polarography thrive!

Raji Heyrovska