University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague

University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague
founding	1920 (1953)
Sponsorship	state
place	Prague
country	Czech Republic
Rector	Karel Melzoch
Students	4112
Website	www.vscht.cz

University building

University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague , Czech Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze , VŠCHT for short , is a Czech university based in Prague .

The history of the formation of the now independent university goes back to the former Prague Polytechnic (later the Czech Technical University in Prague ). Chemistry was taught here from 1806 . After the university was restructured in 1920, the University of Chemical and Technological Engineering ( Vysoká škola chemicko-technologického inženýrství , or VŠCHT ) was established as a faculty . In 1953 the university was spun off from the Czech Technical University in Prague and has existed as an independent university ever since.

Faculties

• Faculty of Chemical Technology
• Faculty of Technology of Environmental Protection
• Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
• Faculty of Chemical Engineering

Personalities

• Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975)
• Otto Wichterle (1913–1998), Czech chemist
• Vladimír Páral (* 1932), Czech writer
• František Benda (1944–2017), Czech environment minister and clergyman.

See also

Commons : University of Chemistry and Technology  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Universities in the Czech Republic

Web links

• University homepage cz / en