František Patočka

František Patočka (22 October 1904, Turnov – 14 March 1985, Prague) was a Czechoslovak microbiologist and serologist. He established the study of virology in Czechoslovakia. His brother Jan Patočka was a well-known Czechoslovak philosopher.

Patočka graduated from Charles University in 1928, studying medicine and specialising in microbiology. In 1936, he became head of the Czech Bacteriological Institute after Ivan Honl. At the end of World War II, together with epidemiologist Karel Raška, Patočka was personally leading measures to stop the spread of epidemic typhus in the Terezín concentration camp. Together, they wrote a report describing the appalling conditions and mistreatment of German civilians incarcerated in the Small Fortress after the war ended. In the 1960s, he worked as an expert for the WHO in India and Zaire. Provided by Wikipedia