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The plaque commemorating the chemist and pedagogue Jan Stanislav Štěrba Böhm was installed in 1936 on the building of the school in Sezemice by the Czech Pharmaceutical Society as a token of gratitude and in memory of one its important members and the former chairman of the Czech Pharmacopoeia Commission, who prepared the first Czechoslovak pharmacopoeia for publication.
Jan Stanislav Štěrba Böhm (1874–1937) is an important figure in the world of Czech chemistry and pharmacy. He started as a pharmacist and gradually completed his university education and became a chemist - pharmacist. From 1920 he worked at the Faculty of Science of Charles University as a pharmaceutical chemistry professor and also headed the newly established institute there. He primarily studied rare earth elements, while also specialising in scandium and analytical chemistry with pharmacy. In the field of pharmacy, as a member of the Pharmacopoeia Commission he was responsible for creating the very first separate pharmacopoeia, which became the basis for all the other pharmacopoeias used in this country.
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KŘEPELKA, J.: Jan Stanislav Štěrba-Böhm. Česká akademie věd a umění, Praha 1939.
DRÁBEK, P.: Ke vzniku československého lékopisu. Česká a slovenská farmakologie, 61/2012, str. 244─247.
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