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On 24 September 2014 Russian physicist Prof. V. G. Kadyshevsky died. He was born on 5 May 1937 in Moscow. In 1987-92 V.G. Kadyshevsky was Director of the JINR Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. From 1992 to 2005 he was Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR).

The obituary is published on the JINR website.

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Joerg Wunderlich from the Department of Spintronics and Nanoelectronics of the Institute of Physics ASCR, with his colleagues from the UK and Germany, was awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for the project “Spin-charge conversion and spin caloritronics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces”. The project has started in August 2014 and will run till July 2020. Besides the Institute of Physics, the other participating organizations are the University of...

On 29th September it will be 60 years since the world's biggest particle physics laboratory, CERN was founded. On this occasion, CERN Director General Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, arrived in Prague on a two-day visit. In the tight schedule prof. Heuer also found time to visit the Academy of Sciences. He met with the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR) Prof. Jiří Drahoš. During this meeting the CERN Director General appreciated the cooperation...

At the end of the last year, postgraduate student Miroslav Myška from the Department of Particle Theory and Phenomenology was awarded the Prize of the Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague for an outstanding PhD thesis of the II. Degree (typically three prizes in each degree from I to III are awarded annually).

Miroslav Myška was supervised at our institute starting from his research work up to his very successful defense of PhD degree...

Lukáš Ondič, PhD. student at Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, received the Best Presentation Award for his contribution titled Two-dimensional Photonic Crystals for Enhancing Light Extraction Efficiency from Luminescent Layers to The 2nd International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science held at Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, U.S.A. from December 13th to 17th, 2013. The...

Zirconium alloys are currently used in all commercially operated light water and heavy water nuclear reactors. Devices in nuclear reactors have to serve for a very long time, quite faultlessly and without maintenance, and their environmental parameters can become very extreme. Zirconium alloys are affected by surrounding setting even during normal nuclear reactor operation, but at temperatures above 800 ° C dangerous high temperature corrosion occurs. This corrosion is...

The Nobel Prize winner Professor Walter Kohn gave a public lecture in Prague on July 9th 2013, 2pm in seminar room no. 103 at FJFI ČVUT, Prague 1, Břehová 7.

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