Jiří Grygar

He also chaired the Czech Television Council and the Science and Philosophy section of the European Culture Club.

His papers focus on interplanetary matter (meteors, comets), limb darkening in stellar atmospheres, close binaries, novae, chemically peculiar stars and remote sensing.

Between 2004 and 2008, Grygar was the president of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, an association of the leading scholars in the country.

As a member of the Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos scientific skeptic group,[2] he is also a prominent critic of pseudoscience and other unproven theories.

[3] On October 26, 1976, a main-belt asteroid 3336 was discovered by a Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek, who named it after Dr.