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Jiří Drahoš

1949 - Today

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Jiří Drahoš (born 20 February 1949; Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈdraɦoʃ]) is a Czech physical chemist and politician who has been the Senator of Prague 4 since October 2018. Previously, Drahoš served as President of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2017, and was a candidate in the 2018 Czech presidential election. Born in Český Těšín and raised in nearby Jablunkov, Drahoš studied physical chemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, and joined the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1973, which he later led from 1995 to 2003. In 2009, he was elected President of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jiří Drahoš is the 574th most popular chemist (down from 566th in 2019), the 792nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 778th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jiří Drahoš ranks 574 out of 602. Before him are F. Albert Cotton, Mildred Cohn, Carol V. Robinson, Sergey Lebedev, Faiza Al-Kharafi, and Martin Kamen. After him are Ira Remsen, Gilbert Stork, Benjamin Silliman, Rachel Fuller Brown, John George Children, and Susan Solomon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jiří Drahoš ranks 639. Before him are John Curry, Jenny Lamy, Giuseppe Sabadini, Anne-Marie Lizin, José Rodrigues Neto, and Alex Miller. After him are Marek Dąbrowski, Walter Corbo, Joseph Pilato, Montxo Armendáriz, Pat Rice, and Masaaki Shirakawa.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jiří Drahoš ranks 792 out of 1,200. Before him are Karel Jarolím (1956), Berthold Englisch (1851), Josef Horešovský (1946), Karel Nováček (1965), Fredy Perlman (1934), and Karel Husa (1921). After him are Alena Šeredová (1978), Štefan Füle (1962), Radek Bejbl (1972), Magdalena Kožená (1973), Zdenka Braunerová (1858), and Iveta Bartošová (1966).

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Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Jiří Drahoš ranks 9. Before him are Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Otto Wichterle (1913), Hans Tropsch (1889), and Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850).

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