Čestmír Šimáně (9 May 1919,

Opava Opava (; , ) is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Opava (river), Opava River. Opava is one of the historical centres of Silesia and was a historical capital of Czech Sile ...

– 26 July 2012) was Czech nuclear physicist. He was the founder of nuclear research in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

.Zemřel prof. Čestmír Šimáně, zakladatel českého jaderného výzkumu
/ref>Čestmír Šimáně, the first director of Nuclear Physics Institute, died ten years ago
/ref>Čestmír Šimáně, otec prvního reaktoru u nás, rozuměl atomům i klasikům
/ref> 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 Řež () is a village and administrative part of Husinec (Prague-East District), Husinec in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Řež is the site of a nuclear physics, nuclear research centre, where the first nuclear reactor in the ...

, where he was in charge of the construction of the first

nuclear reactor A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a Nuclear fission, fission nuclear chain reaction. They are used for Nuclear power, commercial electricity, nuclear marine propulsion, marine propulsion, Weapons-grade plutonium, weapons ...

in the country. He was also an initiator of the construction of the first Czechoslovak

particle accelerator A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel electric charge, charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined particle beam, beams. Small accelerators are used for fundamental ...

, .Tajemství pražského Vítkova. Česká republika má svůj urychlovač částic v atomovém krytu
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1919 births 2012 deaths People from Opava Czech nuclear physicists Brno University of Technology alumni {{CzechRepublic-scientist-stub