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Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Czech chemist (1890-1967)
Carl Ferdinand Cori
Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1896–1984)
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist (1831-1914)
Alois Senefelder
German actor and inventor of lithography (1771-1834)
Karl von Terzaghi
Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics" (1883–1963)
Jan Svatopluk Presl
Bohemian botanist (1791–1849)
Carl Borivoj Presl
Czech botanist, physician and naturalist (1794-1852)
Theodor von Oppolzer
Austrian astronomer and mathematician (1841-1886)
Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
Czech botanist, geologist, paleontologist and nobleman (1761-1838)
Friedrich Reinitzer
Austrian botanist and chemist (1857-1927)
Emil Wolf
Czech born American physicist (1922-2018)
August von Pelzeln
Austrian ornithologist (1825–1891)
Franz Xaver Fieber
German botanist and entomologist (1807-1872)
Jan Janský
Czech doctor, neurologist and psychiatrist (1873–1921)
František Běhounek
Czech academic, physicist, arctic explorer, professor, publicist, translator, writer, university educator and science writer (1898–1973)
Tadeáš Hájek
Czech astronomist and mathematician
Alberto Vojtěch Frič
Czech botanist, traveller, ethnographer, photographer and writer (1882–1944)
Franz Sieber
Austrian botanist (1789-1844)
Friedrich Johann Karl Becke
Austrian mineralogist (1855–1931)
Antonín Frič
Czech geologist and paleontologist (1832–1913)
Luboš Perek
Czech astronomist (1919–2020)
Václav Chvátal
Czech-Canadian mathematician
Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt
Austrian-born, Norwegian chemist
Antonín Holý
Czech scientist (1936–2012)
Eva Syková
Czech senator of Czech Parliament, doctor, professor and scientist
Ladislav Josef Čelakovský
Czech botanist, professor and translator (1834-1902)
Ludwig Mauthner
Austrian neuroantomist and ophthalmologist (1840-1894)
Heinrich von Bamberger
Austrian pathologist (1822–1888)
Julie Moscheles
Czechoslovak geographer
Josef Franz Freyn
Austrian and Bohemian botanist (1845-1903)
Ivan M. Havel
Czech scientist (1938-2021)
Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen
Austrian ornithologist (1847–1924)
Mikuláš Peksa
Czech politician and physicist
František Šorm
Czech politician, academic, biochemist and chemical engineer (1913-1980)
Vladimír Balthasar
Czech entomologist (1897-1978)
Franz Hofmeister
German chemist (1850-1922)
Jan Obenberger
Czech entomologist (1892–1964)
Bedřich Moldan
Czech politician
Eva Zažímalová
Czech biochemist
Jiří Baum
Czech traveller and science writer
Richard Pribram
Austrian chemist (1847-1928)
Heinrich Mache
physicist (1876–1954)
Edwin Plimpton Adams
physicist
Napoleon M. Kheil
Czech entomologist (1849-1923)
Carl Brühl
Austrian anatomist (1820-1899)
Ernst R. G. Eckert
American aerospace engineer
Arthur Mahler
Austrian archeologist and sionist politician (1871-1944) murdered in Holocaust
Ladislav František Čelakovský
Czech botanist and mycologist (1863–1916)
Friedrich von Kleinwächter
Austrian economist (1838-1927)
Dana Drábová
Czech physicist and local politician
Jiří Bičák
Czech physicist and scientist (1942–2024)
Tomáš Zima
Czech chemist, former Rector of Charles University in Prague
Gertrud Kornfeld
German chemist (1891–1955)
Bohuslav Hostinský
Czech physicist, mathematician and university educator (1884-1951)
Linda Nedbalová
Czech Antarctic phycologist
Karel Kavina
Czech botanist, educator and university educator (1890-1948)
Václav Hampl
Czech scientist, director of Czech rectors conference and senator of the Czech Parliament
Josef Herink
Czech physician and mycologist (1915–1999)