Čestmír Šimáně

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, . Provided by Wikipedia