Wiktor Kemula (November 6, 1902, in Izmail – October 17, 1985, in Warsaw) was a Polish chemist, electrochemist, and polarographist.

[1] In 1921, he graduated with honours from secondary school in Izmail and enrolled at the Jan Kzimierz University in Lwów to study chemistry.

In the period of Soviet occupation of Lviv, he continued his scientific research in the city and taught chemistry at the secret Jan Kazimierz University.

[4] He invented the hanging mercury drop electrode (HDME) and contributed to the development of electroanalytical chemistry, especially polarography.

Between 1981–1985, he served as head of the Warsaw Scientific Society (Polish: Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie).