Milan Drábek: Bright, productive, witty, provocative

[摘要] Born in 1946 in Čáslav, Milan started his education ingeology already at the Secondary School of Mining andGeology in Příbram. This institution provided high-levelboth theoretical and practical bases for his future study ofgeology at the Faculty of Science, Charles University inPrague. Having specialized in experimental mineralogicalresearch with mineral deposit applications, he carried outhis master thesis, defended in 1973, in the ExperimentalLaboratory of the Czech Geological Survey, founded byprof. Štemprok. Milan became his assistant and follower.A prestigious Alexander von Humboldt scholarship allowed him to spend two years in the experimental laboratory of the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography inHeidelberg, Germany, in 1979 and 1984. This researchvisit resulted in a PhD thesis focusing on the Fe–Mo–S–O system and its geological application. In addition, itprovided him with robust experimental expertise to beused and strengthened in the Experimental MineralogicalLaboratory of the Czech Geological Survey.

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