Stanislav Brebera

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| name = Stanislav Brebera

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1925|8|10}}

| birth_place = Přelouč, Czechoslovakia

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2012|5|11|1925|8|10}}

| death_place = Pardubice, Czech Republic

}}

Stanislav Brebera (10 August 1925 – 11 May 2012) was a Czech chemist.

He was born in Přelouč and died in Pardubice.{{cite news|url=http://www.denik.cz/pardubicky-kraj/zemrel-vynalezce-trhaviny-semtex-20120518-rrb0.html|title=Zemřel vynálezce trhaviny Semtex|last=Dubský|first=Kamil |date=18 May 2012|publisher=Deník|language=Czech|accessdate=18 May 2012}}

Brebera spent his career in Czechoslovakian state-hold Research Institute for Chemical Industry, currently Explosia Pardubice. He is best known for the developing the plastic explosive known as Semtex in the late 1950s, which was put on the market in 1964.{{cite web | title=Semtex | url=http://www.radio.cz/en/static/inventors/semtex | work= Radio Prague | publisher= | author= | date= | accessdate=14 December 2013}}

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