Date: 21.02.2019
Julius Lukes became officially fellow of the AAAS
Professor Julius Lukeš as the only Scientist from the Czech Republic has been eclected as 2018 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). On February 16 he became officially Fellow at a ceremony in Washington. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.
In October 2018, the AAAS Council elected 416 members as Fellows of AAAS. Julius Lukeš, has been elected within the biological section for a long-term contribution to evolutionary studies in protistology and molecular parasitology with focus on trypanosomatids and apicomplexa.
In the long history of awarding this honor, Julius Lukeš is the fifth AAAS Fellow from the Czech Republic, respectively. Czechoslovakia. In 1931, Silvester Prát (Charles University) was eclected the AAAS Fellow, in 1932 they were Ladislav C. Smolík (Agricultural Experiment Institute) and Vladimír Úlehla (Masaryk University) and in 1941 Václav Ovic Kalčík from the University of Prague. Among AAAS Fellows, however, there are more Czechs, even though work at universities and research institutes abroad.
AAAS (www.aaas.org), the world’s largest general scientific organization, has named fellows every year since 1874, with notable previous fellows including Thomas Edison, Margaret Mead and James Watson. The new fellows, announced Nov. 29 in the Science (www.sciencemag.org), will be recognized at the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. during a Fellows Forum on Feb. 16. They will be presented with an official certificate and the AAAS Fellows’ gold and blue rosette pin, the colors of which represent the fields of science and engineering respectively.
