The Learned Society of the Czech Republic expresses its deep regret for the tragic event that took place on the grounds of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, during which the lives of fourteen members of the academic community were lost...
The Learned Society of the Czech Republic announces a call for prizes for high school students for exceptional scientific activities in the natural sciences or humanities. Proposals can be submitted by members of the Learned Society, secondary school principals and the Association for the Support of Talented Youth of the Czech Republic.
On 15 November 2023, the 18-member expert Climate Team of the Association for International Affairs (AMO) became the fifth recipient of the 2023 Climate Change Communication Prize. The organizers also awarded two honorary prizes in the same category for outstanding achievement.
The Learned Society has received a letter from Israeli rectors calling on European and American academia to oppose the relativisation of Hamas terrorist acts...
President of the Republic Petr Pavel awarded the Medal of Merit of the 1st degree to three members of the Learned Society: Helena Tlaskalová - Hogenová, Jiří Grygar and Josef Jařab (in memorial).
Prof. Jan Konvalinka, director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS and member of the Learned Society, has been awarded the Prize of the Chairwoman of the R&D&I Council Helena Langšádlová for the promotion and popularisation of research.
Botanist, plant physiologist, leading wetland and production ecology expert, and member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, honoured and beloved colleague Jan Květ, nicknamed Hony, will celebrate his significant jubilee on Saturday, 26 August 2023.
At the beginning of the new year, we received the sad news. On 28 December 2022, a member of the Learned Society, Prof. Petr Nachtigall, PhD, died at the age of 59...
“Opinions could and should be challenged, questioned or refuted but never silenced. In order to be able to think, we have to have the right to inquire, question and even offend or be mistaken,” writes Assoc. Prof. Jan Konvalinka, a biochemist at the IOCB Prague and the Vice-Rector of the Charles University, to Gervan Fearon.
Learned Society member, Prof. Mgr. Miroslav Bárta, Dr. (Charles University Faculty of Arts) received the Česká hlava (Czech Head) National Government Award on 25 November 2019.
President of the Learned Society, Prof. RNDr. Blanka Říhová, DrSc., appeared in a live broadcast of the monthly FOCUS Václava Moravce programme on the topic “The Fight for Truth”.
Learned Society member, Prof. RNDr. Jan Trlifaj, DSc., has been appointed a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Founding fellow of the Learned Society and its doyen, astronomer doc. RNDr. Luboš Perek, DrSc, is celebrating his 100th birthday on 26 July 2019. He is an indelible part of history as the person who helped define cosmic space, he was the first to point out the issue of cosmic waste and was also a teacher to the most important Czechoslovak astronomers.
We regret to inform that prof. Josef Koutecký, a fellow of the Learned Society, a renowned physician and the founder of paediatric oncology in this country, passed away on 5 July 2019 at the age of 88. He founded paediatric oncology here in 1964 and a separate paediatric oncology department was then established at the Faculty Hospital in Motol, Prague in 1978.
We regret to inform that PhDr. Slavomil Vencl, DrSc, fellow of the Learned Society and Czech archaeologist, passed away on 23 June 2019 after a long period of illness at the age of 82 years. He initially specialised in the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods, particularly the stone industry of these periods, and subsequently focused on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods.
Ing. Jan Pardon, CSc., a businessman who arranged sponsorship donations from the PRO.MED.CS. Praha, a.s. Company for the Learned Society, passed away on 15 June 2019 at the age of 80 years after suffering a serious illness. We honour his memory.
Prof. Karel Ulbrich, fellow of the Learned Society and internationally renowned scientific expert in the field of polymers as drug carriers, passed away on 19 June 2019 aged 72. He and his team extensively developed the field of polymer carriers utilising water-soluble polymers based on HPMA (N(2-hydroxypropyl)meta-crylamide), i.e. targeted delivery of drugs to diseased cells.
The ceremonial part of the XXV. General Assembly of the Learned Society, at which the Medals of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic Societas Scientarium Bohemica Ad Laudem et Honorem and the awards of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic in the “Young Scientist” and “Grammar School Student” categories were presented, took place on Monday 20 May 2019 in the Great Hall of the Carolinum.
American physicist Kip S. Thorne, recipient of the Nobel Prize for 2017 for detection of gravitational waves, visited Prague at the invitation of he Learned Society. He held a series of “Bolzano lectures” and a lecture titled “Creating Gravitational-Wave Astronomy” for the Learned Society on 15 May 2019 in the Blue Auditorium of the Carolinum. The lecture was held with the support of the Karel Janeček Foundation and was received very enthusiastically.
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