Pavel Jungwirth
Pavel Jungwirth | |
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Alma mater | Czech Academy of Sciences (D. Phil., 1993) |
Spouse(s) | Iva (née Kratochvilova) |
Awards | Otto Wichterle Prize (2002), Spiers Memorial Prize from the Royal Society for Chemistry (2008), Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic since 2009 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Organic chemistry |
Institutions | of the Czech Academy of Sciences |
Doctoral advisor | Rudolf Zahradník |
Website | marge |
Pavel Jungwirth (born May 20, 1966 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a Czech organic chemist. Since 2004, he has been the head of the Senior Research Group at the of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has also been a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University since 2000.[1][2] He has also been a senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry since 2009.[2] He is popularly known for studying the explosive reaction between alkali metals, such as sodium and potassium, and water; his research on this subject indicates that these reactions result from a Coulomb explosion.[3] He and his colleagues have also discovered a way to slow down this reaction, which they used to determine the source of a blue flash that is briefly produced during the reaction.[4]
Pavel Jungwirth is a coordinator of an international science competition Dream Chemistry Award.
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- ^ "Pavel Jungwirth, Ph.D." Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Czech Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Jungwirth, Pavel. "Pavel Jungwirth Curriculum Vitae".
- ^ Webb, Jonathan (26 January 2015). "Metal explosions 'driven by charge'". BBC News.
- ^ Coghlan, Andy (9 August 2016). "Watch a classic chemistry lab explosion tamed to run in slow-mo". New Scientist.
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