Chemistry Background
After World War II, Wichterle returned to the university, specializing in organic chemistry and was active in teaching general and inorganic chemistry. He wrote an inorganic chemistry textbook whose concept was ahead of its time. He also kept in contact with organic chemistry teaching, and wrote a German and Czech organic chemistry textbook. In 1949 he expanded his second doctorate with the technology of plastics and devoted himself fully to the establishment of a new department of plastics technology. In 1952 he was made the dean of the newly established Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague.
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