Physiology or Medicine (1947) Gerty Cori (1896–1957) — biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1947) Karl Deutsch (1912–1992) — social scientist, political scientist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — physicist, served as professor at the German part of the Charles University in Prague (1911–1912) Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, studied at Charles University in Prague (1880) Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967) — chemist; inventor of the polarographic method and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1959); born, lived most of his life and died in Prague Antonín Holý (1936–2012) — chemist, pharmacologist Jan Janský (1873–1921) — serologist, neurologist, psychiatrist Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) — astronomer; in 1601, he succeeded Tycho Brahe as imperial mathematician and the next eleven years lectured for several years in Prague and published his paper on Doppler effect there Enoch Heinrich Kisch (1841-1918), balneologist In sports František Getreuer (1906–1945), swimmer and Olympic water polo player, killed in Dachau concentration camp Radko Gudas (born 1990), ice hockey player Ladislav Hecht (1909–2004), Czechoslovak-American tennis player Tomáš Hertl (born in 1993), ice hockey player; born and raised in Prague Martina Navratilova (born 1956), tennis player; 18 times Grand Slam champion, born in Prague Pavel Nedvěd (born 1972), footballer; Ballon d'Or 2003 winner; lived and played in Prague Felix Pipes (born 1887), tennis player, Olympic medalist František Plánička (1904–1996), footballer, captain of the Czechoslovakia national football team Tomáš Rosický (born 1980), footballer; born in Prague Jan Soukup (born 1979), karateka and kickboxer; born in Prague Václav Žáček (born 1978), personal watercraft extreme sports athlete; born in Prague Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), athlete, Olympic winner; lived and died in Prague Other fields Vladimir Balthasar (1897–1978), entomologist, naturalist and ornithologist Karel Baxa (1863–1938), politician; mayor of Prague for almost two decades Adolph Aloys von Braun (1818–1904), diplomat and statesman Jan van der Croon (1600–1665), Dutch soldier; military commander of Prague 1652–1665 Charles Fried (1935), United States Solicitor General, 1985–89 Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), Nazi general and protector; assassinated in Prague during Operation Anthropoid while serving as governor of the occupied country Jan Hus (1369–1415), priest, philosopher, reformer; most-important preaching done in Prague Jerome of Prague (1379–1416), scholastic philosopher, theologian, reformer, and professor Gershom ben Solomon Kohen (d. 1544), early printer of Hebrew books and founder of the Gersonides (printers) Pyotra Krecheuski (1879–1928), Belarusian statesman and president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile; died in