Hyde Park Civilizace 2 – Stach Daniel (2020)

The second selection of interviews with scientists and personalities from the show Hyde Park Civilizace. A book for those who know they want to know. The guests of Hyde Park Civilizace are people who are changing the world. People who have saved thousands or even millions of lives. People who have stood up to oppression and have not succumbed to suffering. People who will move you forward. The best possible guest is always invited on the topic. The Hyde Park Civilizace team follows the motto of Apollo 13 flight commander Gene Kranz: "Failure is NOT an option." QR codes at the beginning of each chapter link to video versions of the interviews available on the Czech Television website. Daniel Stach speaks in the book with the following personalities: Andrew and Indira Feustel, American astronaut and his wife; Erik De Clercq, biologist, collaborator of Antonín Holý, pioneer in antiviral research; His Holiness the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize winner in Physics; Dita Krausová, Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz librarian; Josef Koutecký, oncologist and founder of pediatric oncology in Czechoslovakia; Zdeněk Svěrák, humorist, playwright, screenwriter, actor, lyricist, writer, Cimrmanologist, one of the "fathers" of Jára Cimrman; Vladimír Dzuro, former investigator...