This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time, space, matter, energy, and gravity but he also was a supporter of Zionism and peaceful living. Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Germany, and spent most of his youth living in Munich, where his family owned a small electric machinery shop. He attended schooling in Munich, which he found unimaginative and dull.

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich [Scottish name:"Finlay"] was a German astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. He was born in Biebrich, Germany. Freundlich was a working associate of Albert Einstein and introduced experiments for which the general theory of relativity could be tested by astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift. After finishing his thesis with Felix Klein at the University of Göttingen in 1910, …

Jan Jesenius was a physician, politician and philosopher of Slovak origin. He is renowned rather for his tragic fate than for his work in the field of anatomy and surgery. Jan Jesenius, son of Balthasar Jesenský (1536 - 1600) and Marha Schueller, studied at the Elisabeth gymnasium in Wrocław and from 1583 at the University of Wittenberg, 1585 at University of Leipzig, and 1588 University of Padua.

Vladimír Špidla (born April 21 1951 in Prague) is a Czech social democratic politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in July 2002 - June 2004 and then was appointed Czech commissioner in the European Commission where he will serve at the post of employment, social affairs and equal opportunities. Špidla studied history at Charles University of Prague.

Jan Mukařovský was a Czech literary theoretic and aesthetician. He was professor at the Charles University of Prague. He is well known for his association with the early structuralism as well as with the "Prague Linguistic Circle", and for his development of the ideas of Russian formalism. Mukařovský had a profound influence on structuralist theory of literature comparable to that of Roman Jakobson.

Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku, also known as Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek, Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek or Thaddeus Nemicus, was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and a Czech astronomer. Hájek was the son of Šimon Hájek (ca. 1485-1551) from an old Prague family. He was ennobled in 1554 by Ferdinand I of Germany, knighted in 1571 by Maximilian I, later made knight of the Holy Roman Empire by Rudolf II.

Kurt Freund (17 January, 1914 - 23 October, 1996) was a sexologist famous for his studies of male sexual orientation and male sex offenders using penile plethysmography (PPG).

Pál Maléter was born to Hungarian parents in Eperjes, a city in the northern part of Historical Hungary, today part of Slovakia. He was the military leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Maléter studied medicine at the Charles University, Prague, before moving to Budapest in 1938, going to the military academy there. He fought on the Eastern Front, until captured by the Red Army. He became a Communist, trained in sabotage and was sent back to Hungary, …

Miroslav Kusý is a Slovak political scientist and former politician. Miroslav Kusý graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Charles University of Prague in 1954 and in 1956 he completed his post-graduate scientific research there. Then he moved to Bratislava, to the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University. He acted there as an assistant lecturer, associate professor and from 1967 to 1970 as a professor for marxist philosophy.

Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the main personalities of the Prague underground. In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surrealistic group. From 1957 to 1961, he studied philosophy and psychology at Charles University in Prague. From the 1960s he was one of the main figures of the Prague underground, writing texts for The Plastic People of the Universe.

Dirk Jan Struik (September 30, 1894, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - October 21, 2000, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA) was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States. Born Dirk Jan Struik in 1894 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as a teacher's son, Struik attended the Hogere Burgerschool (HBS) in The Hague. It was in this school that he was first introduced to left-wing politics by some of his teachers.

Zdeněk Svěrák is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. He was a member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1961 to 1969, which he discussed in interview for Czech magazine Reflex. He studied pedagogy at Charles University of Prague. He has worked in a wide variety of capacities. His work contains more than 300 musical texts, plays and more than ten movies.

Miroslav Kárný was an historian and writer from Prague, Czechoslovakia. He studied history at the Charles University of Prague between 1937-39. In this time, he became member of the students' communist organisation Kostufra. Due to his Jewish origin, in November 1941 he was deported to the Theresienstadt, ghetto. Here he met his later wife, Margita Krausova. Margita and Miroslav were active in the Communist resistance group in Theresienstadt.

Martin Bútora is a Slovak sociologist, writer, university professor and diplomat (former Slovak Ambassador to the USA from 1999 to 2003). A sociologist and writer, born in 1944 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. In November 1989 he was one of the founders of the political movement Public Against Violence, the leading movement of the democratic revolution in Slovakia. From 1990 to 1992 he was the human rights advisor to the former president of Czechoslovakia Václav Havel.

Otokar Fischer was a Czech playwright, an excellent translator, a poet and critic. He was born in Kolín, Czech Republic. He made new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon. He was a professor at Prague university and the director of Bohemian National Theatre in Prague. Died of heart attack in theatre in Prague, as he learned that Hitler's army had occupied Austria.

František Nušl was a Czech astronomer and mathematician. In the first half of the twentieth century, following World War I, he was professor of astronomy at the Charles University of Prague, and head of the Clementinum observatory. In 1928 he became head of the Ondřejov Observatory. He also served as the chairman of the Czech Astronomical Society for a number of years. He is noted for being the co-inventor of the circumzenithal, …

Olaus Laurentii (d. 25 June 1438) was a Swedish ecclesiastic and archbishop of Uppsala. Olaus Laurentii (who is known under the Latin form of his Swedish name Olof Larsson) came from Uppland and studied at the universities of Prague, Leipzig and Paris. He was elected Dean of Uppsala Cathedral in 1417 and archbishop in 1432. He was ordained in Rome 18 May 1432. In the conflict between king Eric of Pomerania, the ruler of the Kalmar Union countries, …

Jiří Čeřovský is a regional politician in the Czech Republic, and a member of Civic Democratic Party. Čeřovský graduated from Charles University with a PhD in biology and chemistry. In the 1970s, he had reached excellent results in athletics (he won all Czechoslovakian masterships from 1975 to 1983 and had represented Czechoslovakia in world championships). Later Čeřovský taught biology at the Sport School in Jablonec nad Nisou.

Max (Harry Maxwell) Hayward (28 July 1924 London - 18 March 1979 Oxford) was a British lecturer on and translator of Russian literature. After schooling in London and Liverpool, Hayward went to Magdalen College, Oxford in 1942 on a scholarship to study German. He soon dropped German for Russian, graduating with a first-class degree in 1945.

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Dr. Peter Hnik , MD, MHSc – Chief Medical Officer Dr. Hnik received his medical degree from the Medical Faculty of Charles University of Prague in 1981. After practicing for years at the Eye Clinic of the Charles University Hospital where he performed surgery and consultation in glaucoma and neuro-ophthalmology, Dr. Hnik later joined the Eye Clinic of the University of British Columbia as part of the glaucoma research group.