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Jaroslav Kožešník
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<p>Jaroslav Kožešník (8 June 1907 in <a href="/facts/Kn%25C4%259B%25C5%25BEice_(Jihlava_District)/8luURdQW">Kněžice</a> – 26 June 1985 in <a href="/facts/Prague/txpRNTUE">Prague</a>) was a Czech and Czechoslovak scientist, mathematician, an expert in mechanics and automation (<a href="/facts/Cybernetics/4qb58zbt">cybernetics</a>), chairman of the <a href="/facts/Czechoslovak_Academy_of_Sciences/wtbcKtbp">Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences</a> (1969–1970, 1970–1977, 1977–1980), a Communist Party functionary in <a href="/facts/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic/gJIrAxHu">Communist Czechoslovakia</a> and a member of the parliament during the <a href="/facts/Normalization_(Czechoslovakia)/zYlD7oF9">Normalization</a> period, recipient of several state awards, editor-in-chief of the <i>Kybernetika</i> journal. </p>