Academy Notables
- Jaroslav Heyrovský won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959.
- Otto Wichterle for his discovery of contact lenses. Otto Wichterle also became the first President of the Academy after the revival of democracy in the Czech Republic.
- mathematician Eduard Čech
- chemist Antonín Holý
- Polish mathematician Czeslaw Olech
- cannabis researcher and chemist Lumír Ondřej Hanuš
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