Schulek Elemér

* Késmárk, September 3, 1893 – † Budapest, October 14, 1964 / chemist, pharmacist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He came from a pharmacist family, and he himself studied pharmacy at the Budapest University of Science and Technology. He obtained his doctorate in 1920. He remained at the university and worked as an assistant professor at the No. 1 Institute of Chemistry under Lajos Winkler (1863–1939), during which he made a long study trip to Europe and the United States. He primarily visited hygiene institutes, as in 1927 he was assigned to the chemistry department of the newly founded National Institute of Public Health, of which he soon became head. His task here was to organize official drug testing. In 1944, he was appointed professor of the Department of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry of the University, succeeding László Szebellédy (1901–1944). In 1941, he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1945, a full member. He was awarded the Kossuth Prize twice (in 1949 and 1951). He was a further developer of classical analytical methods, and has made special contributions to the development of pharmaceutical analytical procedures. The destructive reduction and bromatometric method with sulfuric acid peroxide, developed with Vilecz, for the determination of the arsenic and antimony content of pharmaceuticals, was widely used, and he extended it to the field of bromine titrations. He introduced several new redox indicators into volumetric analysis. He also dealt with compounds of sulfur and selenium. He was the editor-in-chief of Acta Pharmaceutica Hungarica. ; ; His main works: ; V. Hungarian Pharmacopoeia (editor-in-chief), 1954, ; The theoretical foundations and methods of general quantitative analytical chemistry (with Zoltán László Szabó), 1966.