The ‘Little Nobel Prize’ Goes to the Charles University. Jana Roithová Received the L












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            The fantastically successful year of Professor Jana Roithová of the Faculty of Natural Sci

            The number of awards and prizes this exceptionally gifted chemist received this year was i
            augmented by the Ignaz L. Lieben Award, also known as the Austrian Nobel Prize. Professor 
            it in person on Wednesday, November 12, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.



            “I feel very well now. But it is also a large responsibility. I mustn’t let down the peopl

            me,” Professor Roithová smiled. “I would have never thought of running for this prize beca
            thought I could possibly win. I was nominated by my colleagues from the Institute of Organ

            Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Letters of recommendation w
            by Professor Josef Michl of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Professor He
            with whom I did my postdoc. Currently, he is President of the Humboldt Foundation in Germa

            letters of recommendation contribute very much to being chosen,” Professor Roithová remark
            Ignaz L. Lieben Award is awarded to scientists under 40 years of age who work in physics, 
            molecular biology research and come from the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croat

            Austria, Slovakia, or Slovenia. The winner is selected by a special committee of the Austr
            of Sciences. Professor Roithová received the award for her research in physical organic ch
            particular the use of mass spectrometry in combination with infrared spectrometry to study

            reactions and properties of individual reacting particles.
            Ignaz L. Lieben Award was given to talented sciences since the 1860s as a legacy of the be
            Lieben. The tradition, however, was interrupted by the WWII and renewed only in 2004. Prof

            is the first Czech to receive the Lieben Award. The award comes with a financial prize of 
            800,000 CZK).

                                                                                                      
            Prof. Mgr. Jana Roithová, Ph.D., (born 1974) studied organic chemistry at the Faculty of N
            Technology in Prague. Then she left to the Technical University in Berlin, where she worke
            Upon her return to the Czech Republic, she worked first in the Institute of Physical Chemi
                                                                                                      
            Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Charles University, where she currently heads the Depar
                                                                                                      
            By using mass spectrometry in combination with infrared spectrometry, Professor Roithová a
                                                                                                      
            may lead to explaining the detailed progress of particular reactions, thus enabling intent
            technologies of various chemical products.                                                
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            Professor Roithová received a number of scientific grants and her research won many awards
            researchers. Three years later, she became a recipient of the L’Oréal Scholarship for Wome
            very important award and financial support for her research came in 2010 when she won the 
                                                                                                      
            Intermediates’. The European Research Council released for her project a sum of 1.29 EUR, 
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
            This year, too, has been a very successful one for Jana Roithová. In the spring, she was a
            research in chemistry and a week later, she received the Award of the Learned Society of t
            Republic and now, in the final quarter, also by the Austrian Academy of Sciences which gra
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      


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