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Ada Yonath (Nobel prize in Chemistry laureate)
Episode 318
Go after your curiosity. You need to have more curiosity. Even more curiosity. But it’s not enough to be curious. You have to have passion. Says Prof…
6 years, 1 month ago
Reinhold Messner (mountaineer, adventurer)
Episode 317
The first person who climbed all 14 eight-thousanders. The first person who climbed Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, the first person who c…
6 years, 1 month ago
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Nobel prize in Physics laureate)
Episode 316
It is important to have crazy ideas because crazy ideas are sometimes good ideas. And a good researcher is student forever. Says Claude-Cohen Tannoud…
6 years, 1 month ago
Eric Betzig (Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate)
Episode 315
He says he had two mid-life crisis. The first one when he got an idea and the second one when he implemented it. Today he is Nobel Prize laureate - p…
6 years, 1 month ago
Dan Shechtman (Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate)
Episode 314
You should look around and pay attention to something odd, says Daniel Schetman, professor at Technion, Israeli institute of technology. And he did f…
6 years, 1 month ago
Harald Zur Hausen (virologist)
Episode 313
Around a quarter of million women around the world die every year of cervical cancer. Protection is vaccination. Prior to the development of vaccine …
6 years, 1 month ago
Bernard Bigot (director-general of ITER tokamak)
Episode 312
In a special broadcast of Hyde Park Civilisation we visit Institute of plasma physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The reason is simple - our gu…
6 years, 1 month ago
Irina Bokova (director-general of UNESCO)
Episode 311
This cultural cleansing is a warcrime that is now used as a tactics of war. Says Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, when she described the des…
6 years, 1 month ago
Johann-Dietrich Wörner (director general of European Space Agency)
Episode 310
After the beginnings of astronomy, after the times of Apollo programme and ISS a new era is about to start. It will include for example village on th…
6 years, 1 month ago
Douglas Vakoch (President of METI International)
Episode 309
Dr. Douglas Vakoch, President of METI International – an organization that keeps pushing the SETI project. Literally further into space. He and his t…
6 years, 1 month ago