One of the most famous Czech scientists, theoretical astronomer Prof. Jan Palouš, a member of the Academy Council or the ASCR, talks in an interview about his membership in the prestigious correspondence-board of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. and Marina Hužvárová.
We feature an interview with Professor Pavel Zemánek and Dr. Bohdan Růžička from the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS on the occasion of the conference LASER55, which was organized in cooperation with the Institute of Physics of the CAS. Leading Czech scientists and experts from public and private sector met on October 21-23, 2015 in Třešť to discuss interdisciplinary cooperation in laser science. and Magdaléna Selingerová.
This was a comment during an interview with Professor Vaclay Pates, a renowned Czech biochemist, for a feature article in this issue. The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR) has been observing the 20m anniversary of its inception, of which this is a part. Professor PaOes was President of the Academy (2005-2009) and also of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (2010-2012). His scientific speciality is genomics. His research group was among the first to completely sequence a genome, namely, the DNA of a bacterial virus. In addition, he discovered a specific enzyme involved in the catabolism of the plant hormone cytokinine. He co-authored of the first Czech synthetic gene (the precursor of the neurotransmitter enkefaline). and Marina Hužvárová.