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.
Markéta Škodová v tomto čísle mluvila s Ing. Josefem Bečvářem o situaci ve výzkumu veřejného mínění v 60. a 70.letech, a také o jeho působení v Ústavu veřejného mínění. Ing. Josef Bečvář (* 1929) byl v letech 1967-1972 výzkumným pracovníkem Ústavu pro výzkum veřejného mínění Československé akademie věd. Předkládaný rozhovor s tímto sociologem je součástí kontinuální snahy CVVM o mapování různých aspektů dějin výzkumu veřejného mínění v České, resp. Československé republice., Markéta Škodová., and Seznam literatury
The Council for the popularization of science of ASCR in cooperation the Philosophical institute of ASCR, organized a press conference and a lecture with Prof. Paul Konrad Liessmann, a well-known Austrian philosopher, awarded by the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism in 1996 and Scientist Prize 2006 (2007). Konrad Paul Liessmann was born 1953 in Villach. He is professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and the editor of Zsolnay’s PHILOSOPHICUM LECH series. and Luděk Svoboda.