Václav Hlavatý

[1] In particular, Hlavatý solved some very difficult equations relating to Einstein's Unified field theory, which was featured in the news media as one of the great scientific achievements of 1953.

[2] Einstein himself was reported to have said that if anyone could solve the equations it would be Professor Hlavatý, which proved to be the case.

[3] He was born in Louny, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) and died in Bloomington, Indiana.

He obtained his PhD in 1921 at the Charles University in Prague[4][5] and during World War II participated in the Prague uprising,[3] but his academic career was mainly at Indiana University, which he joined in 1948, and where he became Professor, later Emeritus, of Mathematics.

[6] In 1958, he became the first President of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences[7] established in Washington DC by intellectuals of Czech and Slovak origin.