František Šantavý
František Šantavý , (born April 23, 1915 in Hroznová Lhota , † March 27, 1983 ) was a Czech chemist and pharmacist.
Life
Šantavý studied from 1934 to 1939 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Brno , 1937/38 in Paris and 1947 at the Pharmaceutical Faculty of the University of Basel. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Germans in 1938, he had to break off his studies. From 1939 to 1941 he worked in a hospital laboratory in Uherské Hradiště . Until 1945 he was at the Research Institute for Chemistry in Zlín and 1945/46 in the laboratory of the Institute for Oncology in Prague-Bulovka. In 1945 he became director of the Institute of Biology and in 1951 of the Institute of Medicinal Chemistry at the Medical Faculty of the Palacký University in Olomouc , which he helped to establish. In 1955 he was appointed professor there. In 1974 he was elected as a member of the Leopoldina .
At the end of the 1930s he dealt with the biochemistry of glutathione and in the 1940s with applications of polarography in medicine and pharmacy, including colchicine . From the 1950s onwards he dealt with alkaloids of the poppy family and composites . This also included the use of demecolcin as a chemotherapeutic agent against leukemia. He published over 400 papers.
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 377
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of František Šantavý at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 8, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Šantavý, František |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech chemist and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hroznová Lhota |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1983 |