The Czech Republic and JINR. Long-Term Fruitful

For many years a member of the JINR Scientific Council has been Prof. Ivan
Wilhelm, until 2006 the rector of Charles University, a member of the Governmental Council
for Science and Development (http://www.cvutmedialab.cz/).
Ivan Wilhelm was born on 1 May 1942. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering
and Nuclear Physics of the Technical University in 1964. In 1972 he became a senior lecturer,
and in 1999 he was elected the professor of experimental physics. On graduation from the
institute he worked at the Czech Technical University. In 1967–1970 he worked at the Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. Over the period 1990–1994 he was the director of
the Nuclear Centre of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University. In the
years 1994–2000 he was a vice-rector of Charles University and then the Chairman of the
Council of Higher Education Institutions. In 2000–2006 he was the rector of Charles
University and was also elected the Chairman of the Czech Conference of Rectors. For many
years he held the post of the Chairman of the Council at the Ministry for Education and then
the post of the Chairman of the Programmes Council. I. Wilhelm is presently Deputy Minister
of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. He is professor, member of the JINR
Scientific Council since 1993, now the co-Chairman of the Scientific Council.
Professor Ivan Wilhelm is the Doctor Honoris Causa of the Claude Bernard University
in Lyon and Comenius University in Bratislava. He was awarded with The Medal of the
Committee of Plenipotentiaries at JINR, Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Chevalier (Republic
of France) and Order of St Gregory the Great (Vatican).
Meeting in Prague on the 50th anniversary of JINR (2006).
Left to right: R. Mach, J. Paroubek (the CR prime minister), I. Wilhelm, A.N. Sissakian
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