Antonin (Tony) Prochazka was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in January 1945. He received his engineering degree from the Faculty of Nuclear Physics of the Technical University of Prague in 1967. After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968, he came to Vancouver and continued his studies for a PhD at UBC’s Department of Physics and at the TRIUMF project. Upon completion of his PhD he chose to work in industry. Over the years he worked for CBC Engineering in Montreal and Northern Telecom in Hull, and later set up his own firm in Ottawa, consulting for various companies and specializing in RF design. He was a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and a senior IEEE member.

Tony was a loving husband of 50 years to Jitka (BASc’73, Civil). He was happy to have seen his three daughters succeed in their careers and find their life partners, and he was overjoyed at the arrival of each of his six grandchildren. He passed away peacefully at home, his family present, on July 21, 2019, after a long-term illness.