František Nušl
Czech astronomer, mathematician and university educator
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- PhD Mathematics Charles University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, František Nušl was a Czech astronomer and mathematician. Life After high school in Jindřichův Hradec, he studied physics and astronomy in Prague, where he met among others the future president of Czechoslovakia, T. G. Masaryk, the linguist Jan Gebauer and the historian Josef Goll, with whom he collaborated on Otto's encyclopedia. After 1893 he taught maths on various high schools and met with J. J. Frič, a manufacturer of precision instruments. In 1898 Frič bought a large piece of land in Ondřejov, 50 km south-east from Prague, where they established an astronomical observatory. Since 1904 Nušl was assistant professor of astronomy at the Charles University of Prague and after 1908 professor of mathematics at the Czech Technical University in Prague . In 1917, Nušl was among the founders of the Czech Astronomical Society, whose president he was to become later. In 1928 Frič dedicated the well-equipped Ondřejov Observatory to the Charles university and to the Czechoslovak state and Nušl became its first head. He was a member and temporarily vice-chairman of the International Astronomical Union and participated in establishing the popular Štefánik's Observatory on the Petřín hill in Prague. Nušl was a gifted musician, he played viola and was member of a Prague chorus. He was married and had three children.
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