František Janouch (22 September 1931 – 12 January 2024) was a Czech

nuclear physicist Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...

, author and

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. While still a high-school student in 1948, he joined the

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. He was later expelled and stripped of his citizenship at the time of

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. In 1978 in Stockholm, he co-founded and chaired the Charter 77 Foundation to support Czechoslovak

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signatories from abroad.

Personal life

František Janouch died in

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, Sweden on 12 January 2024, at the age of 92. Janouch's daughter, Katerina Janouch, is a Swedish journalist, far-right politician, and author.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Janouch, Frantisek 1931 births 2024 deaths People from Lysá nad Labem Czech nuclear physicists Czechoslovak dissidents Saint Petersburg State University alumni Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)