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 & Company He was born in Eleja parish, Latvia.
Education
Riga Technical University.
Career
Polis died in Riga, Latvia on 12 April 2011 at the age of 72.