Ivan Saxl
 

(1936 - 2009)

graduated at the Charles University in Prague in theoretical physics and, during his whole scientific carrier, he was with the Czechoslovak (or Czech) Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy, the Institute of Geophysics and, during the last 20 years, at the Institute of Mathematics. He was one of the leading experts in stereology, integral geometry and stochastic geometry and his scientific works were devoted to applications of stereology in metallography, high temperature deformation, fracture and biology. Ivan was author or co-author of three monographs and published many papers in impacted journals. He was also a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague and a supervisor of many successful PhD students. He was also very active in organizing scientific conferences: co-chairmen of six international conferences Materials Structure & Micromechanics of Fracture (MSMF1-6) in Brno, organizer of the 6^th International Conference on Stereology, Spatial Statistics and Stochastic Geometry (S⁴G) in Prague, etc.