PT Journal AU Komarek, J TI Prof. RNDr. Frantisek Hindak, DrSc. - 80 years SO Fottea PY 2017 BP i EP ii VL 17 IS 2 AB Prof. Frantisek Hindak, who celebrates his 80th years anniversary in March 2017, belongs to the prominent specialists of the Slovak and also the world phycology. His name is surely connected with the start and development of the modern research of algae in Slovakia. While the historical phycological investigations in Slovakia, particularly in the Carpathians - High Tatra Moutains, were covered sooner mainly by the specialists from Hungary, Poland or by the Czech colleagues, he fully developed a supported the modern phycological research on Slovakian scientific institutions and universities. ER