Čestmír Šimáně
Čestmír Šimáně | |
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Čestmír Šimáně in 2011 | |
| Born | Čestmír Šimáně 9 May 1919 |
| Died | 26 July 2012 (aged 93) Czech Republic |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Occupation(s) | pedagogue, physicist and publicist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Brno University of Technology |
Čestmír Šimáně (9 May 1919, Opava – 26 July 2012) was Czech nuclear physicist. He was the founder of nuclear research in the Czech Republic.
He was director of the Institute Physics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. From 1955, he was the first director of the newly founded Institute of Nuclear Physics in Řež, where he was in charge of the construction of the first nuclear reactor in the country.
He was also an initiator of the construction of the first Czechoslovak particle accelerator, Microtron MT25.