A / Z Akademie – 1/2026
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Welcome to the new issue of the A / Z Akademie newsletter, a selection of the most interesting events in the Czech Academy of Sciences.
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Neuron Award
Jiří Grygar wins Neuron Award
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Astrophysicist and science popularizer Jiří Grygar from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences received the Neuron Foundation Award for promoting a love of science at the Prague Planetarium.
Neuron Prizes: Václav Petříček and Prokop Hapala among the ten awarded
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On September 28, the Neuron Endowment Fund awarded two leading scientists of the Institute of Physics. In the Pantheon of the National Museum, Václav Petříček received the highest prize awarded, Neuron Prize for Contribution to World Science, and Prokop Hapala was ranked by the Neuron Board among seven promising young scientists awarded.
The Neuron Award for Significant Scientific Discovery in Physics goes to Mr. Tomáš Jungwirth
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New discovery how the information is recorded in anti-ferromagnetic materials with the use of particle spin.
Lukáš Palatinus received the Neuron Award for Promising Young Scientists in Physics in 2017
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Among other successes, he developed a program Superflip, which has been widely adopted by the crystallographic community and is one of the most commonly used programs in the field today.
Neuron Award for Physics goes to the Institute of Physics again
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Six top Czech scientists under 40 in the fields of medicine, social sciences, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics received the Neuron Award for young scientists.
Further two Neuron prizes with connection to Institute of Physics CAS
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For his contribution to world science, prof. Petr Hořava, PhD was awarded. Apart from the principal „senior“ Neuron Award acknowledging top scientists, there is also a “Neuron Impulses” category focused on young scientists in the Czech Republic. In 2015, Mgr. Anna Fučíková, PhD, has won this prize in the field of physics.
The Neuron Award for Promising Young Scientists given to Hynek Němec
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Hynek Němec was one of five young scientists who were awarded for their outstanding scientific results alongside the financial reward.
