Awards

Praemium Academiae Awarded to Petr Šittner

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Petr Šittner from the Institute of Physics has become one of the laureates of this year’s Academy Premium awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences. The president of the Academy of Sciences only announced the four winners for the first time in the fourteen-year history of the prominent science award, in a departure from the traditional prize-giving ceremony.

Karel Jungwirth: science cannot be controlled, but it has to

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Dr. Karel Jungwirth became the eighth emeritus researcher of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The letter of appointment was taken over by the director of the Institute, M. Prouza, on December 19. On this occasion, we talked with the former director of the Institute of Physics about the pleasures and sorrows of scientific life.