Homines scientiarum V - Třicet příběhů české vědy a filosofie + DVD – Grygarová Dominika (2016)

The fifth volume presents the following personalities: Emil Kolben (1862–1943), an inventor, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur, discussed by historian Miloš Hořejš. Jiří Bičák, a specialist in the theory of relativity, recalls the places where Albert Einstein worked during his stay in Prague in 1911–12. The chapter introduces his close Prague colleague, mathematician Georg A. Pick (1859–1942), with whom Einstein discussed the mathematization of the general theory of relativity. With Bohumil Němec (1873–1966), we move into the field of biology and botany. His grandson Ivan Šmíd, biology historian Jan Janko, Němec's friend and physician Josef Koutecký, and Němec's student Jan Krekule (born 1931), who is presented in the upcoming portrait as a significant plant physiologist of the following generation, discuss this prominent plant physiologist, who was also a politician and presidential candidate. The founder of Czechoslovak pediatric oncology, and also a lover of visual arts and music, Josef Koutecký (born 1930) invites us into the world of medicine. The series of portraits of scientific personalities concludes with experimental physicist Stanislav Vepřek (born 1939), who has been active in Switzerland and Germany since the 1970s, and is the author of so-called boronization in tokamaks for controlled research...