Zdeněk Souček

Zdeněk "Frank" Souček (Brno, 9 September 1917 – Macquarie Island, 24 December 1967) was a Czech-Australian physician, polar and tropics explorer and traveler.

Zdeněk Souček in 1965

Souček gained his doctorate in 1947 at Charles University in Prague. He started to work in Prachatice where he got to know his future wife. He emigrated to the West Germany in 1949 and one year later to Australia where he joined Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. He spent year 1952 on Macquarie Island, however he worked on New Ireland during 1953–1959. Besides tropical medicine he did an anthropology research here. After his return to ANARE, he participated in 12 Antarctic expeditions serving mostly as a physician. He studied influence of extreme conditions on human organism and bacteria in gastrointestinal tracts of polar birds and mammals. He worked mainly on Macquarie Island and at Wilkes Station.

He died of a heart attack on Macquarie Island.[1] A cremation urn with his ashes is placed in Vodňany, Czech Republic.

Places named after Souček

Several places are named after Zdeněk Souček:

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gollark: Also also, "convention over configuration" being stupid. Yes, the choice of four spaces vs two isn't too significant, but being able to choose means you'll have code you can possibly read a bit more easily, and also public/privateness via *capitalization* just (in my opinion) looks ugly and is annoying if you want to change privacy.
gollark: i.e. generic slices/maps/channels but not actual generics, == being ***maaaaagic*** (admittedly like in most languages, I think), and `make`/`new`.
gollark: Also, as well as that, how it just special-cases stuff instead of implementing reusable solutions.
gollark: e.g. no map function existing or even being possible means that you have *readable* code with a for loop, but it's harder to understand *why that's there* and *what it's for*.

References
  1. "The Age - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.


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