Od pluhu do senátu a zpátky – Houdek František (2017)

Prof. MUDr. Josef Říman, DrSc., a member of several foreign scientific academies and societies, worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from its very beginnings (1951); he left in 2006 as the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He progressed through all levels from a research fellow to a scientific worker or director of an institute, eventually holding positions as scientific secretary, vice-chairman, and from 1986 to 1989, chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1976, he founded and led the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for fifteen years, playing a crucial role in the introduction of cell and gene engineering and modern biotechnology in then Czechoslovakia. He is among the pioneers in the biochemistry of retroviruses. His findings offer a new perspective on the interpretation of reverse transcription of genetic information. Content: Roots / Before I Was Born * Childhood in Těšín * Until Maturity * The End of the War * To SCIENCE / In Medicine * Post-War Losses and Discoveries * As a Scientific Aspirant * Years with Leukemia * First Time in the West * At the First 'Czech' Nobel Prize * Awards, Honors, Emotions * As a Leading Scientific Worker * Golden Times in the Laboratory * From America to America * Under the Stars and Stripes * After 1968 * Part of the Scientific World * SCIENCE / To the New Institute * The Institute of Molecular Genetics from 1976-1991 * Organization and Evaluation of Science in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Scientific…