13 Facts About Mila Rechcigl

Mila Rechcigl was one of the founders and past President for many years of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences.

Mila Rechcigl then spent two years conducting research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Mila Rechcigl's finding of greatly different levels of catalase activity in certain substrains of mice, which were under genetic control, provided an excellent model for pursuing fundamental research in biochemical genetics in the mammalian system.

Mila Rechcigl is the author or editor of over thirty monographs and handbooks in the field of biochemistry, physiology, nutrition, food science and food technology, agriculture, and international development, in addition to a large number of scientific articles and book chapters, including:.

Apart from his purely scientific endeavors as a researcher and science administrator, Dr Mila Rechcigl devoted almost 50 years of his life to the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, an international organization, with headquarters in Washington, DC He was responsible for the first two Society's World Congresses, both of which were a great success and which put the Society on the world map.

Mila Rechcigl edited the Congress lectures and arranged for their publication, under the title The Czechoslovak Contribution to World Culture and Czechoslovakia Past and Present The publications received acclaim in the American academic circles and greatly contributed to the growing prestige of the Society worldwide.

Dr Mila Rechcigl was involved, one way or another, with most of the subsequent SVU World Congresses, including the recent SVU Congresses in Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Washington, DC, Plzen, Olomouc and Ceske Budejovice.

Mila Rechcigl was instrumental in launching a new English periodical Kosmas.

Mila Rechcigl proposed the establishment of the SVU Research Institute and the creation of the SVU Commission for Cooperation with Czechoslovakia, and its Successor States, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which played an important role in the first years after the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

Mila Rechcigl established the National Heritage Commission with the aim of preserving Czech and Slovak cultural heritage in America.

Dr Mila Rechcigl is a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, member of the Scientific Research Society of the Sigma Xi, member of the Cosmos Club, Honorary Member of the International Honor Society of Delta Tau Kappa and Honorary Member of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences.

Mila Rechcigl was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and Fellow of the International College of Applied Nutrition.

Jack Mila Rechcigl is a professor of soil and water sciences at University of Florida and Director of Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Wimauma.