Letters: February 2021
Rudolf Zahradník (1928–2020) The pioneering quantum chemist and founding president of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, Rudolf Zahradník, died on 31 October 2020 in Prague. Joining forces with Jaroslav Koutecký, Zahradník laid the foundations in the 1950s and 1960s of what is known as the Prague school of quantum chemistry. Despite Koutecký and his key associates, Joe Paldus and Jiří Čížek, emigrating in the aftermath of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Prague school continued to prosper throughout the politically a...
Source: chemistryworld.com