Emil VotoÄek
Emil Votoček ( born October 5, 1872 in Hostinné, † October 11, 1950 in Prague) was Czech chemist and professor at the Technical University in Prague and internationally recognized scientist in the Department of monosaccharides.
Life
The son of a paper merchant, studied at the Commercial Academy, but soon switched to chemistry. After he graduated from the Prague Technical Academy, two years he was on the University of colors in Mulhouse in Alsace. Here he began with experimental chemistry, moved to Göttingen on, where at that time met the elite of chemistry and physics. He studied under Professor Bernhard Tollens chemistry of the sugar. A department that filled his later life and made him an international capability in this area.
In 1895 he returned to the Prague Technical University, worked as an assistant from 1900 as lecturer and since 1907 as a full professor of experimental chemistry. His lectures he held until closure of the university by the Nazis in 1939.
Over 15 years he lectured in over 30 years in inorganic and organic chemistry. Votoček one of the founders of Czech scientific school for organic chemistry.
Works
Votoček published a number of works for the chemical analysis and sugar composition, colors and a variety of aromatic and inorganic chemistry. He discovered several new forms of sugar. In addition to sugar research, he also developed a new method of normalization of the halogens and built a series appliances.
He refined the terminology of the Czech chemical names. In addition, he published textbooks on his lectures. His results were published in the publishing of the Czech Academy and the Royal Bohemian Association of teaching as well as in reports of the Chemical Society. With Nobel laureate Jaroslav Heyrovský he founded the scientific journal Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications.
His students included Rudolf Otto Wichterle and Lukeš.
Publications
- Anorganická chemistry (co-author, 1902)
- Cvičení v Chemii organické (Prague, 1899-1901 )
- Fysikální chemistry (1902 )