Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959, announced October 26, 1959. Jaroslav Heyrovsky, “for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis”. Jaroslav Heyrovsky: born 1890, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).