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:
“Maybe we were the blind mechanics of disaster, but you don’t pin the guilt on the scientists that easily. You might as well pin it on M motherhood.... Every man who ever worked on this thing told you what would happen. The scientists signed petition after petition, but nobody listened. There was a choice. It was build the bombs and use them, or risk that the United States and the Soviet Union and the rest of us would find some way to go on living.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.”
—Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)
“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)