What is Emil Paleček?
[[File:Emil palecek.jpg|right|200px]] '''Emil Paleček''' (3 October 1930 – 30 October 2018) was a Czech [[Biochemistry|biochemist]]. He researched how DNA can be used to diagnose [[genetic diseases]]. Paleček discovered [[electrochemistry]] in [[nucleic acids]]. He was [[Jew]]ish and his father died in the [[Holocaust]].<ref name=Blesk>{{cite news| url= https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/regiony-brno-brnane/513275/svetova-vedecka-hvezda-emil-palecek-bada-v-brne-jde-rakovine-po-krku-i-v-87-letech.html| title= Světová vědecká hvězda Emil Paleček bádá v Brně: Jde rakovině po krku! I v 87 letech...| language=cs| work=[[Blesk]]| date=26 December 2017| access-date=4 November 2018}}</ref> In 1959, Paleček got a [[PhD]] in [[biochemistry]] from [[Masaryk University]] in [[Brno]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (now in the [[Czech Republic]]).<ref name=ACS>{{Cite journal| title= Review: Electrochemistry of Nonconjugated Proteins and Glycoproteins. Toward Sensors for Biomedicine and Glycomics| journal=Chemical Reviews| volume=115| issue=5| pages=2045–2108| doi= 10.1021/cr500279h| pmid=25659975| pmc=4360380|year = 2015|last1 = Paleček|first1 = Emil| last2=Tkáč| first2=Jan| last3=Bartošík| first3=Martin| last4=Bertók| first4=Tomáš| last5=Ostatná| first5=Veronika| last6=Paleček| first6=Jan}}</ref> During the 1960s, Paleček worked at the Biophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in [[Brno]].<ref name=Iro>{{cite news| url= https://www.irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/veda/emil-palecek-biochemik-umrti-dna_1810300832_ako| title= Zemřel biochemik Emil Paleček. Objevil nový způsob jak zkoumat DNA| work=iROZHLAS|language=cs| date=30 October 2018| access-date=4 November 2018}}</ref> In 1989, Paleček became a member of the [[Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=ACS /> From 1993–97, he was a member of the [[Czech Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=ACS /> In 1994, Paleček was one of the founding members of the [[Learned Society of the Czech Republic]].<ref name=CT24>{{cite news| url= https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/2637104-ve-veku-88-let-ze