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OCH / HCH
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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OCH
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HCH
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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History of Chemistry
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
2
Cred.
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Type of completion
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-
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Type of completion
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-
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Time requirements
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Lecture
2
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
0
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The goal of this course is to shed light to nearly forgotten paths of chemistry development as an individual field. We will start with discoveries that gave rise to first civilizations and finish with possible inventions that may come in the future. The aim of the course is to point out the duration of discovery process in chemistry and its dependence on other fields along with the development of civilization itself. For that reason, the presentations are built not only on the question "When?" but more importantly "How?", allowing students to grasp the core of chosen concepts which leads them to better understanding.
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Requirements on student
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To write seminary thesis on picked topic.
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Content
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1. Prehistory - uses of fire, metallurgy (gold, silver, copper), fermented drinks and food; glass and ceramic manufacturing. Ancient era - metallurgy (bronze, iron, lead, mercury...). Beginnings of alchemy - Ancient Greece (4 elements, aether, greek fire), China (paper, gunpowder). 2. Middle ages - goals and means of alchemy (experimental methods - filtration, distillation, sublimation, extraction). Islamic alchemy (synthesis of different inorganic acids). Europe (synthetic protocols for different compounds, iatrochemistry). 3. 16-18th century - study of electricity, magnetism, crystallography and light; laws of conservation mass and momentum; flogiston theory and new theory of fire - death of four elements; isolation and study of gases; organic chemistry; chemical nomenclature; microscopic techniques. 4. 19th century - physical and analytical chemistry (thermodynamics, valence theory, acid-base theory, electromagnetic field, spectral analysis, ideal vs real gas, electrochemistry, magnetochemistry); atomic theory, discovery of the electron. 5. 19th century - organic chemistry (the death of vitalism, classification of org. compounds, synthetic dyes, barbiturates, isomerism); discovery of noble gases, nucleic acids, the periodic law. 6. First half of 20th century - atomic structure and quantum chemistry (photoelectric effect, electron spin, Schrodinger´s equation, Heisenberg´s uncertainty principle, antiparticles); radioactivity, isotopes. 7. Second half of 20th century - fast development of organic synthesis (Grignard reagents, vitamin C, nylon, sulfonamides, freons). 8. IWW + IIWW - chemical weapons; atomic bombs, petroleum industry - plastics materials; Haber-Bosch and Ostwald process, penicillin. 9. Second half of 20th century - analytical chemistry (Mossbauer spectroscopy, chromatography methods - HPLC, LCMS, MALDI, nuclear medicine, NMR); biochemical methods (proteomics, DNA sequencing, electrophoresis, GFP, PCR); biotechnology (GMO, Taxol). 10. Second half of 20th century - inorganic and organic synthesis (metallocenes, synthetic diamonds, cisplatin, nanotechnology, solid phase synthesis, Diels-Alder reaction, glyphosate, coupling reactions...); new materials (Kevlar, Gore-Tex). 11. 20th century + future? - biochemical methods (lipidomics, CRISPR); nanotechnology; new drugs (HIV, cancer, Alzheimer disease...); energy and sustainable development; artificial photosynthesis. 12. Nobel prizes.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Partington, J. R. A short history of chemistry. Dover Publications, INC., New York, 1989.
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Basic:
Engels, S., Nowak, A. Chemické prvky - histórie a súčasnost. SNTL/ALFA, Praha, 1977.
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Basic:
Flechtner, H. J. Svět v křivuli. Čin, Praha, 1941.
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Basic:
Lowe, Derek B. The chemistry book. Sterling, New York, 2016.
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Recommended:
Levy, J. Chemie bez (m)učení. Grada publishing, a.s., Praha, 2012.
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Recommended:
Gray, T. Prvky. Slovart, 2012.
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Recommended:
Brock, W. H. The history of chemistry, A very short Introduction. OXFORD, U.K., 2006.
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Recommended:
Běhounek, F. Zářící atomy. Orbis, Praha, 1956.
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On-line library catalogues
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will go through most crucial discoveries in chemistry which allows deeper understanding of discussed topics. Historical context will give them bigger insight of chemistry as indivisible part of other fields and humankind itself along with the position of science in modern world. |
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