Jiří Hošek is the third Emeritus Scientist of the CAS for the NPI

Theoretical physicist Ing. Jiří Hošek, DrSc., received the decree of appointment to the position of Emeritus Researcher of the CAS on Thursday, 14 March 2023, during a ceremony at the headquarters of the Nuclear Physics Institute in Řež. 

Dr. Hošek received the charter from the hands of the Director of the Institute Ondřej Svoboda. Dr. Hošek has been an Emeritus Research Fellow of the Institute since 19 January 2024, when the letter of appointment was signed by the President of the CAS Eva Zažímalová. J. Hošek received the new status for his "lifelong successful work and merits for the development of the Institute and the scientific field".

"I am proud of the fact that the Institute of Nuclear Physics already has three Emeritus Scientists of the CAS. Jiří Hošek was undoubtedly one of our excellent scientists for many decades and the title of Emeritus Scientist is a recognition of his lifelong efforts and merits in the field of theoretical physics," said Ondřej Svoboda.

J. Hošek is the author of many influential publications in various areas of theoretical physics. He has worked on the theory of neutrino masses and CP symmetry breaking in the lepton sector, on the description of colour confinement by means of a dual London-type colour superconductor, and on the superconductivity of colour quarks in QCD. In recent years, he has been developing the theory of electroweak interactions with the composite Higgs boson.

Jiří Hošek headed the Department of Theoretical Physics at the  Nuclear Physics Institute from 1998 to 2017, where he is still working, now as an emeritus researcher. In addition to J. Hošek, the Institute has two other Emeritus Scientists of the CAS: Ing. Otokar Dragoun, DrSc. from the Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and doc. Ing. Vladimír Hnatowicz, DrSc. from the Department of Neutron Physics.