The Academy Council of the ASCR, during the first half of 2003, awarded
The honorary medal "De Scientia et Humanitate Optime Meritis" for exceptionally meritorious contributions in the area of science and the promotion of humanitarian ideas
- Prof. Dr. Jan Tauc, DrSc., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Prof. PhDr. Ivan Hlaváček, DrSc., Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
- Doc. JUDr. Jiří Kejř, DrSc., former staff member of the ASCR Archives, Prague
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- Ing. Jan Vondrák, DrSc., research scientist, Astronomical Institute, ASCR, Prague
- RNDr. Vladimír Dvořák, DrSc., research scientist, Institute of Physics, ASCR, Prague
- RNDr. Vladimír Fiala, CSc., research scientist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, ASCR, Prague
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Siegried Hofmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Metalforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
- Ing. Věnceslav F. Kroupa, DrSc., research scientist , Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, ASCR, Prague
- Prof. Ing. Miloš Pick, DrSc., research scientist, Geophysical Institute, ASCR, Prague
- Ing. Axel Plešinger, DrSc., research scientist, Geophysical Institute, ASCR, Prague
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- Prof. MUDr. Jiří Bartek, DrSc., Institute of Cancer Biology, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dr. Gareth Wyn Griffith, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Josef Jiřičný, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- MVDr. Jiří Lukáš, CSc., Institute of Cancer Biology, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Prof. Thomas A. Miller, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
- Prof. RNDr. Milena Rychnovská, DrSc., Palacký University, Olomouc
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- Prof. Albert J. Aguay, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Research in Neuroscience, Montreal, Canada
- Prof. Zach W. Hall, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Prof. Rainer Klinke, Dr. med., Physiologisches Institut II, Frankfurt/M, Germany
- Ing. Josef Matoušek, DrSc., research scientist, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, ASCR, Liběchov
- Prof. Michael M. Merzenich, PhD., University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
- Prof. Ole Peterson, M.D., FRS, University of Liverpool, Great Britain
- Prof. William Darrell Willis, Jr., M.D., PhD., University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Prof. Wyn Brown, University of Uppsala, Sweden
- Prof. Ing. Jaromír Horák, DrSc., research scientist, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ASCR, the Joint Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry of Pardubice University and the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, ASCR, Prague
- Prof. Ing. Jindřich Kopeček, DrSc., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Prof. JUDr. PhDr. Viktor Knapp, DrSc. (in memoriam)
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- Doc. PhDr. Zoe Hauptová, CSc., research scientist, Institute of Slavonic Studies, ASCR, Prague
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- Prof. Dr. Detlef Brandes, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Marcel Kosman, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza, Poznaň, Poland
- PhDr. Josef Krása, CSc. (in memoriam)
- Prof. PhDr. Pavel Spunar, CSc., research scientist, Institute for Classical Studies, ASCR, Prague
- Prof. Stanley B. Winters, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- prom. biol.(graduate biologist) Šárka Orlíková, editor of the journal Živa, Prague
- Mgr. Věra Tůmová, Czech Radio 2- Praha
- Doc. RNDr. Jan Žďárek, DrSc., research scientist, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, ASCR, Prague
- Doc. Ing. Jaroslav Petr, DrSc., research scientist, Research Institute of Animal Production, Prague