František Nušl
František Nušl (; 3 December 1867, in Jindřichův Hradec – 17 September 1951, in Prague) was a Czech people, 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, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 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 (ČVUT). In 1917, Nušl was among the founders of the Czech Astronomical Society, whose president he was ...
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