Famous People with Name Jindrich

Jindrich Kucera            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jindrich Kucera: a Czech linguist who was a pioneer in corpus linguistics and linguistic software.In the 1950s, Kucera found his way to Brown University, in the United States, where he was able to further pursue his interest in linguistics (he remained there for the rest of his career). At Brown, he became interested in the computational analysis of human language, though at the time there were scarcely any tools for this type of research.In 1963-1964, Kucera collaborated with W. Nelson Francis to create the Brown Corpus of Standard American English, generally known as the Brown Corpus. This was a carefully compiled selection of current American English as published during the year 1961 in 1000 sources on a wide variety of subjects. It has been very widely used in computational linguistics,

Jindrich Šimon Baar            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jindrich Šimon Baar: was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement[1]. As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside.

Jindrich Backovský            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jindrich Backovský: was an eminent Czech physicist whose work focused on X-ray spectroscopy, the structure of crystals, vacuum techniques, radiometry and the physics of high pressures. Many of his findings are used in industry, especially in the manufacture of semiconductor parts and synthetic diamonds.

Jindrich Wankel            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jindrich Wankel: was Czech paleontologist and archaeologist.Studied as medical doctor he came to work into area of Moravský kras (Moravian Karst, today Czech Republic) in 1847 and since 1849 lived in Blansko. He started with geological exploration of the area and later with paleontology, archaeology and anthropology.

Jindrich Krepindl            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jindrich Krepindl: is a Czechoslavak handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Czechoslavak team which won the silver medal at the Munich Games. He played all six matches and scored eleven goals.

Karel Jindrichovský            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Jindrichovský: is a Czech former handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.