Emil Zátopek was crowded with leading figures from the international sports world. He was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal in 1975. In 2012, he was named among the first twelve athletes to be inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame. A life-size bronze statue of Zátopek was unveiled at the Stadium of Youth in Zlín in September 2014. Emil Zátopek Emil Zátopek (; 19 September 1922 – 22 November 2000) was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but
Emil Wolf known as "Born and Wolf". In addition he co-authored, with Leonard Mandel, "Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics". He also authored "Introduction to the Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Light" and "Selected Works of Emil Wolf with Commentary" (World Scientific Publishing, 2001, ). Furthermore, he edited the "Progress in Optics" series of books, for Elsevier, from its inception in 1962. Emil Wolf Emil Wolf (July 30, 1922 – June 2, 2018) was a Czech-born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering