Hyde Park Civilizace – Stach Daniel (2016)

Welcome to the world of science and the questions of contemporary society. We ask prominent scientists and personalities of our civilization. Welcome to the Hyde Park of Civilization. Like them, we seek answers. A program and a book for those who know they want to know. Nobel Prize winners, people who are changing the world. In this book of interviews with guests of the Hyde Park of Civilization, you will learn what fifteen of them have achieved, what challenges they faced, how they handled critical situations, and what their personal stories are. As you read, you will journey from medicine to architecture, physics, space travel, and into the worlds of film, photography, and sports. Daniel Stach speaks in the book with the following personalities: Bohdan Pomahač - plastic surgeon, Scott Parazynski - astronaut, NASA, Tomáš Radil - former prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Lawrence Krauss - theoretical physicist, cosmologist, Philip Zimbardo - psychologist, author of the Stanford prison experiment, Eva Jiřičná - architect, Rick McCallum - producer of Star Wars, Jan Šibík - photographer, Natalia Gorbaněvská - dissident, Jerome Friedman - Nobel Prize winner in physics, Jiří Markovič - former head of the Prague murder investigation department, Jiří Ježek - disabled cyclist, Jan Říha - blind mountaineer, Adam…