Petráň Mojmír

Prof., MUDr., CSc.
Born March 28, 1923 in Prague, † August 13, 2022

1942, graduation, academic secondary school in Žižkov, Prague;
1945-1950, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague;
1950-1953, post-graduate student at the Biological Institute, later Physiological Institute, CSAS;
1960, Associate Professor in medical physics at the Faculty of Medicine, CU, Pilsen;
1990, appointed Professor of Biophysics.

1942-1945, technical clerk in Ostmarkwerke at Kbely in Prague;
1949, auxiliary assistant at the Physiological Institute of FM CU in Prague;
1950-1960, post-graduate student, later scientific worker, Biological Institute and Physiological Institute, CSAS;
1964-1966, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven USA.;
1960-1970, Head, Department of Medical Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, CU, Pilsen; 1970-1989, scientific worker there;
1989-2002, pensioner; 2002-present, 30 percent part-time position, First FM CU, Prague

1946, Czechoslovak Military Medal for Merit, second class
1969, Vienna Erfindermesse [Inventors’ Fair] Gold Medal (for exhibiting our Institute’s microscope with tandem canning)
1987, Laufberger Medal of the Czechoslovak Physiological Society
1989, Honorary membership of the Royal Microscopical Society (see above) and the medal “150 Years RMS”
2004, Award of the Czechoslovak Microscopy Society

Bureš, M. Petráň, Zachar: Electrophysiological Methods in Biological Research (1960) (three English editions; also translated into Russian, Chinese and partly into Japanese)
M. Petráň, M. Hadravský, Egger, Galambos: Tandem-Scanning Reflected-Light
Microscope. J. Optical Society of America 58, 661-664 (1968)
Petráň, Boyde, Hadravský: Direct View Confocal Microscopy. In: Confocal Microscopy (T. Wilson,. Ed.). Academic Press, London 1990, pp. 245-283
M. Petraň, M.Hadravsky: Method and Arrangement for Improving the Resolving Power and Contrast. US Patent No. 3, 517.980 June 30, 1970 (Czechoslovakia claimed priority of application Dec. 5, 1966)
M. Petráň: Vesmír 76, 616 (1976) and Vesmír 83 (3) M6, (2004) (in Czech on the microscope with tandem scanning)
Translated several books by Jiří Procházka, especially those in Latin and German, into Czech and Russian, and also co-edited works with several other authors; published by CSAS Publishing House, 1954, 1956, 1971, and Medgiz, Leningrad 1957

Memoirs: editing in progress.