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            * CU scientists amongst recipients of awards and grants bestowed by Neuron Foundation
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            World-renowned professors Vojtěch Rödl, Jan Vaňous, Jiří Vítek and Bedřich Velický have re

            Neuron Award for Lifelong Achievement. During their presentation at Malostranská beseda on
            agreed that the fundamental influence on their careers were the inspirational scientific p
            they met during their careers.

            The Foundation awarded prizes for lifelong achievement in the field of mathematics (Profes
            Rödl), medicine (neuroradiologist Jiří Vítek) and economics (Professor Jan Vaňous). The aw
            which was bestowed for the first time ever, was received by Professor Bedřich Velický, the

            of the recipients who is resident in the Czech Republic, working at the CU Faculty of Math
            Physics. In his appreciation of the award-winner, Professor Jiří Chýla emphasised the thre

            Professor Velický’s works – his research into semiconductors, disorganised substances and 
            his pedagogical activities and, last but not least, his organisational activities (contrib
            transformation of the Academy of Sciences following the Velvet Revolution and instigation 

            of its grants agency).
            “Theoretical solid-state physics is a somewhat unheralded field,” said Professor Velický a
            of his presentation, adding: “Everyone knows terms such as black holes from cosmology and 

            Higgs boson from particle theory, but who has heard of emission or localisation? It’s not 
            people are interested in, which I find incredible, because solid-state physics affects eve
            surrounds us, taking a unified approach to these substances and founded on physical princi

            Professor Velický, whose goal it is to describe, or even predict, various observed phenome
            of the standard solid-state model.
            “Steve Weinberg, a favourite of Professor Chýla’s, wrote several times that this work is n

            interesting, because the equations are known, because whatever you explain, it’s not a dis
            game. I have been studying these games all my life,” explained the leading expert on disor
            and disequilibrium events in solid-state substances. Professor Chýla has published more th

            and is referenced more than 3,500 times in specialist literature.
            Professor Vojtěch Rödl was the first Czech mathematician to be invited to give one of the 
            talks at the world mathematicians’ congress. During his presentation he highlighted his di

            Professor Jaroslav Nešetřil, a graduate of the CU Faculty of Mathematics and Physics who h
            in the USA since 1987 and currently teaches at Emory University in Atlanta.
            Apart from bestowing awards, the Neuron Foundation [ URL "http://www.nfkj.cz/kontakt"] wil

            provide financial support totalling 4 million crowns in the fields of medicine, mathematic
            and economics. A grant worth one million crowns in the field of economics has been awarded
            Pertold, Ph.D., from CERGE-EI, a joint centre of CU and the Czech Academy of Sciences. Ing

            research the comparison of the chances of mother finding employment in the Czech Republic 
            equal amount has been awarded in the field of physics to Ing. Michal Malinský, Ph.D., who 
            the basic building-block of all atomic nuclei, the proton, and any limits on its lifespan.

            crowns has been awarded in the field of mathematics to theoretical computer scientist asso
            Mgr. Michal Koucký, Ph.D., for a study that will demonstrate whether a certain mathematica
            effectively solved. “We are trying to show that it is possible to support basic research w

            paperwork,” said well-known science benefactor Karel Janeček at the meeting.
            .