Jānis Polis
Deceased Person
1938 – 2011
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Who was Jānis Polis?
Jānis Polis was a Soviet and Latvian pharmacologist and the developer of one of the first methods of synthesis of rimantadine, which was discovered in 1963 by William W. Prichard of Du Pont & Co. He was born in Eleja parish, Latvia. On 6 February 2009 Polis was awarded the WIPO Award for Outstanding Inventors. Polis died in Riga, Latvia on 12 April 2011 at the age of 72.
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1938
Eleja parish - Also known as
- Полис, Янис
- Died
- Apr 12, 2011
Riga
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on July 23, 2013
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