František Tureček is a Czech-American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Washington.
[1] Tureček was born in Prague and received a PhD in organic chemistry from Charles University in 1977.
[1] He left Czechoslovakia in 1987 and joined Fred McLafferty's lab at Cornell University.
He has received several awards during his career, including the P. B. Hopkins Faculty Award (2006), the Czech Head-Patria Science Prize (2010), the Johannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopy Award (2010), the Thomson Medal of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation (2012), and the John Gustavus Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (2013).
He is an Honorary Member of the Czech Mass Spectrometry Society.