Scientists
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- Karel Absolon, archaeologist and speleologist
- Josef Augusta, paleontologist and popularizer of science
- Jiří Baborovský, chemist
- Jindřich Bačkovský, physicist
- František Běhounek, radiologist, writer, and explorer
- Vincent Bochdalek, anatomist
- Johann Böhm, chemist
- Bernard Bolzano, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian
- Otakar Borůvka, mathematician
- Josef Božek engineer
- Václav Cílek, geologist and popularizer of science
- Jan Amos Comenius, polyhistorian, educator, and the inventor of illustrated textbooks
- Eduard Čech, mathematician
- František Čelakovský, linguist and writer
- Leander Czerny, biologist
- Václav Prokop Diviš, a reinventor of the lightning rod, which was actually invented by Benjamin Franklin of America.
- Josef Dobrovský, philologist and historian
- Karel Fortyn, physician
- František Josef Gerstner, physicist and engineer
- Stanislav Grof, physologist and researcher in transpersonal psychology
- Jan Hajek, scientist
- Jaroslav Hájek, mathematician
- Tadeáš Hájek, physician and astronomer
- Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959
- Václav Hlavatý, mathematician
- Ivan Honl, biologist
- Kamil Hornoch, amateur astronomer
- Bedřich Hrozný, linguist
- Jakub Husnik, inventor and painter
- Jan Janský, a rediscoverer of blood types, which were actually discovered by an American, Dr. Drew
- Karl Guthe Jansky, engineer
- Vojtěch Jarník, mathematician
- Konstantin Jireček, historian
- Otto Jirovec, parasitologist and protozoologist
- Břetislav Kafka, parapsychologist
- Vlasta Kálalová, physician and entomologist
- Karel Kavina, botanist
- Jan Kmenta, economist and econometrician
- Luboš Kohoutek, astronomer
- František Koláček, physicist
- Zdenek Kopal, astronomer
- František Křižík, an inventor of the arc lamp
- Bohumil Kučera, physicist
- Jaroslav Kurzweil, mathematician
- Václav Láska, geophysicist and mathematician
- Mathias Lerch, mathematician
- Drahoslav Lím, chemist and the inventor of hydrogel
- Frank Malina, aeronautical engineer
- Ernst Mach, physicist and expert in aerodynamics
- Jan Marek Marci, physician
- Zdeněk Matějka, chemist
- Gregor Mendel, the founder of the science of genetics
- Antonín Mrkos, astronomer
- František Patočka, biologist
- Karel Petr, mathematician
- Josef Ladislav Píč, archaeologist
- George Placzek, physicist
- Julius Pokorny, etymologist
- Křišťan of Prachatice, medieval astronomer and physician
- Petr Pravec, astronomer
- Jan Svatopluk Presl, chemist
- Karel Presl, botanist
- Jiří Procháska, physiologist
- Stanislav Prowazek, zoologist and parasitologist
- Vlastimil Pták, mathematician
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně, the physiologist who first recognised the individuality of fingerprints
- Zdeněk Rejdák, scientist in psychotronics
- Josef Ludvík František Ressel, a reinventor of the ship's propeller, which was actually invented by the Swedish-American John Ericsson
- Karel Rokytanský, anatomist
- Karel Rychlík, mathematician
- Vojtěch Šafařík, chemist
- Jaroslav Šafránek, physicist
- Bohumil Sekla, biologist
- August Seydler, physicist and astronomer
- Jan Šindel, astronomer
- Josef Škoda, physician
- Ferdinand Stoliczka, paleontologist
- Vincenc Strouhal, physicist
- František Josef Studnička, mathematician
- Antonín Svoboda computer scientist and mathematician
- Olga Taussky-Todd, mathematician
- Jana Tichá, astronomer
- Miloš Tichý, astronomer
- Viktor Trkal, physicist and mathematician
- Ota Šik, economist
- Miloslav Valouch, mathematician
- Petr Vopěnka, mathematician
- Jindřich Wankel, paleontologist
- Otto Wichterle, chemist and the inventor of the modern contact lens
- Karel Zahradnik, mathematician
- Rudolf Zahradník, chemist
- František Záviška, physicist
- John Zeleny, physicist and the inventor electroscope
- Vladimír Zoubek, geologist
- Petr Zuman, electrochemist
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Famous quotes containing the word scientists:
“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“All you of Earth are idiots!... First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade. They begin to kill your own people a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb, many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb—split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself.”
—Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1922–1978)
“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson)