Oldřich Hanč

Oldřich Hanč (born March 22, 1915 in Pilsen , † 1989 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak speed skater, pharmacologist and biochemist.

Life

Hanč was several times Czech champion in speed skating and participant in the Olympic Winter Games in 1936. He placed there 32nd in speed skating over 500 m. Hanč was a brother of the poet Jan Hanč and an honorary member of the Czech Society for Chemistry and the Czech Academy of Sciences . Hanč grew up in Pilsen and Prague. After studying biochemistry and some publications on the biosynthesis of steroids , he worked as the scientific head of the research department of the shoe manufacturer Bata .

Publications

Hormones. Introduction to their chemistry and biology . VEB Gustav Fischer, Jena 1959.
as ed. with J. Hubik: “Scientiae Pharmaceuticae II.”, Proc. 25 ^th Congr. Pharm. Sci. 1965. London 1967.
with Zdenek Pádr: Chemistry and Biology of Hormones . VEB Gustav Fischer, Jena 1979.
HPLC in pharmacy and biochemistry . Hüthig, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-7785-1699-X .

Web links

Oldřich Hanč (Česká republika, 1915-1989) (Czech). Retrieved October 17, 2014.
Oldřich Hanč in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ O. HANC, E. RIEDL-TUMOVA: [Microbial conversion of steroids]. In: The Pharmacy . Volume 9, Number 11, November 1954, pp. 877-890, ISSN 0031-7144 . PMID 14370929 .
↑ A. CAPEK, O. HANC, M. Tadra: Microbial transformations of steroids. XXI. Microbial preparation of 1,4-androstadiene derivatives. In: Folia microbiologica. Volume 8, March 1963, pp. 120-124, ISSN 0015-5632 . PMID 14018396 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hanč, Oldřich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czechoslovak speed skater, pharmacologist and biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Plzeň
DATE OF DEATH	1989
Place of death	Prague

[1] O. HANC, E. RIEDL-TUMOVA: [Microbial conversion of steroids]. In: The Pharmacy . Volume 9, Number 11, November 1954, pp. 877-890, ISSN 0031-7144 . PMID 14370929 .

[2] A. CAPEK, O. HANC, M. Tadra: Microbial transformations of steroids. XXI. Microbial preparation of 1,4-androstadiene derivatives. In: Folia microbiologica. Volume 8, March 1963, pp. 120-124, ISSN 0015-5632 . PMID 14018396 .