According to archival records, Building no. 9 originally housed laundries, kitchens and similar facilities for the daily operation of the hospital. The chimney that served these facilities, which no longer exists, can be seen in the pre-war photograph below. In November 1944, an American bomb fell on the building and, after the war, it had to be completely rebuilt. While this is most obvious in the shape of the present roof, one could easily play that old favourite game of ‘find ten differences’.
Photo: MU Archive, undated.
Building no. 9 now houses the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and the so-called super clean rooms of the Semiconductor Laboratory, i.e. clean rooms used for silicon technology and microelectronics. In the past, the building has housed apartments for faculty service staff, including the secretary, fireman and inspector of the botanical garden, the offices of the Botanical Garden and the Department of Anthropology. At one point, a large part of the building was set aside for the Department of Biochemistry, where skeletons were stored in the soil and seeds were dried. After the Velvet Revolution, the building housed the first faculty buffet, where soup was served, the faculty canteen not having been built at that time.
Photo: Libor Teplý, 2019.
On September 27, 2024, over two hundred enthusiastic scientists, teachers and students prepared 62 stands on the theme ‘Transformations in the natural sciences and mathematics’, attracting more than 4,500 visitors to both SCI MUNI campuses.
CaviPlasma technology for the cleaning of wastewater from hard-to-remove pollutants wins the TA ČR Award in the category SOCIETY and also becomes the absolute winner with the title Czech Idea 2024.
