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Patrick Gaulé Awarded the Otto Wichterle Award 2014

5 June, 2014

Patrick Gaulé , an Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) and at CERGE, Charles University, and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, has been awarded the Otto Wichterle Award, an honour given by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic to stimulate and encourage selected, exceptionally outstanding, promising young scientists at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for their remarkable contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in a given area .

The award consists of a diploma from the President of the AV CR and a reward for the successful completion of an extraordinary or especially important scientific task within a given scientific discipline. 

The Award was named after the late  Otto Wichterle in memory and to honour  this excellent Czech chemist, the inventor of Czech version of nylon and soft contact lenses, a scientist of a global standing and a person of high moral character, and the honorary president of the Academy of Sciences CR.