What is Rudolf Zahradník?
[[File:Prof. Ing. Rudolf Zahradník, DrSc., Dr. h. c.jpg|right|210px]] '''Rudolf Zahradník''' (October 20, 1928 – October 31, 2020) was a Czech [[chemist]]. He was born in [[Bratislava]], then [[Czechoslovakia]], now [[Slovakia]]. He studied the relationship between theoretical and experimental characteristics. From 1993 to 2001 he was president of the [[Czech Academy of Sciences]] and in 1994 became founding chairman of the [[Learned Society of the Czech Republic]]. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Zahradník_Rudolf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Zahradník_Rudolf |title=Rudolf Zahradník|publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Zahradník died October 31, 2020 in [[Prague]] at the age of 92.<ref>[https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/3218656-zemrel-vedec-rudolf-zahradnik-byvaly-predseda-akademie-ved-byl-mentorem-angely Zemřel chemik Rudolf Zahradník. Bývalý předseda Akademie věd byl mentorem Angely Merkelové] {{in lang|cs}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zahradnik, Rudolf}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Czech chemists]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] {{bio-stub}}