CHEMIST

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 128,505 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jiří Drahoš is the 566th most popular chemist (down from 496th in 2019), the 778th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 605th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Chemist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jiří Drahoš ranks 566 out of 602. Before him are Faiza Al-Kharafi, Mary Engle Pennington, K. C. Nicolaou, Barbara Askins, Henry Roscoe, and Christian Ehrenfried Weigel. After him are George M. Whitesides, Ira Remsen, Marie Maynard Daly, Edith M. Flanigen, Emma P. Carr, and Rachel Fuller Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jiří Drahoš ranks 616. Before him are Masaaki Shirakawa, Daniel DiNardo, John Haglelgam, Dorothy Allison, Giuseppe Sabadini, and Don Muraco. After him are Montxo Armendáriz, Percy Rojas, David Abulafia, Chicão, Claudia Kolb, and Rod Temperton.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jiří Drahoš ranks 778 out of 1,200. Before him are Berthold Englisch (1851), Přemysl Bičovský (1950), Vladimír Růžička (1963), Karel Senecký (1919), Jiří Pešek (1927), and Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský (1886). After him are Marie Pujmanová (1893), Bohumil Modrý (1916), Jan Palouš (1888), Josef Augusta (1946), Marta Jandová (1974), and Pavel Pavel (1957).

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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), Otto Wichterle (1913), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Hans Tropsch (1889), and Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850).

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