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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
Professor Benno Willke
Episode 308
„Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it.“ Said David Reitze, LIGO Laboratory Executive Director. And Einstein´s theory…
6 years, 3 months ago