Science & Technology
- Alfred Bader, son of Czech immigrant, founder of Aldrich Chemical Company, art collector, philanthropist.
- Thomas Cech, of Czech ancestry, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
- Carl Cori, Prague-born Nobel Prize laureate.
- Gerty Cori, Prague born Nobel Prize laureate.
- John C. Dvorak, of Czech ancestry, columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing.
- Abraham Flexner, son of Czech immigrant, reformer of American medical education, founder of Institute of Advanced study, Princeton.
- Simon Flexner, son of Czech immigrant, pathologist, founder and first director of the Rockefeller Institute (now University).
- Václav Hlavatý, a noted Czech-American mathematician, who solved some very difficult equations relating to Einstein's Unified field theory.
- Aleš Hrdlička, a physical anthropologist of note; founder and the first curator of physical anthropology of the U.S. National Museum.
- Josef Allen Hynek, of Czech ancestry, astronomer, professor, and ufologist.
- Karl Jansky, of Czech ancestry, discoverer of radio astronomy.
- Frederick Jelinek, pioneer of statistical methods in computational linguistics.
- Gustav Lindenthal, Brno-born, notable civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge (1917) among other bridges.
- Frank Malina, of Czech parents, aeronautical engineer who designed the first U. S. rocket to break the 50-mile altitude mark, becoming the first sounding rocket to reach space.
- Mila Rechcigl, biochemist who pioneered early studies on enzyme synthesis and degradation; one of the founders and long-time President of SVU.
- Oldrich Vasicek, mathematician, author of several financial models including Vasicek model.
- Paul Zamecnik, of Czech ancestry, a biochemist of note, who played a central role in the early history of molecular biology.
- Charles Zeleny, a Czech-American zoologist, and professor at the University of Illinois, who made important contributions to experimental zoology, especially embryology, regeneration, and genetics.
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