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THE November issue of Chemicke Listy records the death at Mauthausen camp on February 25, 1942, of the biochemist, Dr. Jan Becka, three days after his fifty-third birthday. Prof. Becka graduated at Prague in both medicine and the natural sciences, and his first researches established the chemical and physical identity of certain types of keratin from various sources. In 1919 he became lecturer in chemistry at the Brno Veterinary College and was appointed professor in 1926, which post he held until the College was closed in 1939.
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Prof. J. Be?ka. Nature 159, 19 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159019a0
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