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Ing. Bohuslav Březina, CSc. passed away on February 4, 2019.

After obtaining his PhD in 1955 he joined the Ceramic Research Institute in Klenčí and Hradec Králové. In 1957 he joined the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences where he focused on growing single-crystals...

Luděk Pekárek, a long-term Director of the Institute of Physics and a co-founder of the laser facilities in Czechoslovakia, passed away on Wed, 17. October 2018. He was 94.

The Institute of Physics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (FU ČSAV) was founded in 1954. As early as a year...

Eva Zažímalová, the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has visited the Institute of Physics, viewing nearly twenty laboratories distributed around two primary facilities. The programme spanned from the early hours of the day until late afternoon for a reason: the...

Ing. Miroslav Maryško, CSc. - who was a month away from celebrating his fiftieth year of employment with the Institute of Physics - died on Friday, September 8, 2017. Having graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT), he got his first job at the...

The Czech Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Ms. Katerina Valachova has visited Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), U.S.A. on November 13, 2015. Fermilab general director Nigel Lockyer welcome the visitors and deputy director Joe Lykken introduced the Fermilab...

The initial construction for the international ELI Beamlines laser centre in Dolní Břežany began three years ago. On the 30th June 2015 the first phase of the construction was completed. The ceremonial handing over of administrative and multi-functional buildings of the ELI...

Representatives from the Czech parliament and government visited Fermilab on 19 November 2014. The Czech delegation met with the Fermilab management team and learned about the laboratory's program. Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer welcomed Jan Hamáček, speaker of...

Professor Jan Fischer celebrated his 80th anniversary on April 26th, 2012. He works at the Institute of Physics since 1954 and was for many years head of the Department of High Energy Physics (now Division of Elementary Particle Physics). During the period of 1985-91...

Professor Igor A. Savin, outstanding Russian physicist, visited Prague. On 26th May 2011 he was awarded 1st degree Medal of the Czech Physical Society in the Institute of Physics ASCR. During the ceremony I.A. Savin presented seminar concerning his collaboration...

Jan Tauc deceased at the age of 88 on 28th December 2010 in Washougal, Wa, in the West of US. The Czech science loses in his person one of its most significant physicists of the post war era, the founding personality of solid state physics and a scientist of world renown, who...

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