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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jiří Drahoš has received more than 124,550 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jiří Drahoš is the 497th most popular chemist (down from 486th in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 558th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Chemist.

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  • 15

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  • 2.98

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  • 2.59

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jiří Drahoš ranks 497 out of 509Before him are Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Zdenko Hans Skraup, David MacMillan, Nikodem Caro, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès. After him are George M. Whitesides, Albert Ladenburg, Frederick G. Donnan, Nikolai Menshutkin, James Crafts, and Charles Blagden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jiří Drahoš ranks 455Before him are María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Anita Borg, Olga Morozova, Shlomo Artzi, Emma Kirkby, and Viktor Klimenko. After him are Anatoliy Konkov, Marie-George Buffet, Larisa Petrik, Yuri Baturin, Jahn Teigen, and Michael Bleekemolen.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jiří Drahoš ranks 605 out of 973Before him are Josef Holeček (1921), Josef Zeman (1915), Vladimír Martinec (1949), Tomáš Galásek (1973), Josef Tošovský (1950), and Radek Štěpánek (1978). After him are Karel Halíř (1859), Karel Kašpar (1870), Karel Absolon (1877), Otokar Březina (1868), František Čapek (1914), and Franciszek Rychnowski (1850).

Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

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

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