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07/2004

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Academic bulletin 07/2004


SUMMARY

TOPIC OF THE MONTH
With the New Executive Board of the Czech Learned Society

At the annual session of the Czech Learned Society a new president, asptrophysicist Jiří Grygar was elected.

EVENT OF THE MONTH
The Prizes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

The awards of the AS CR honour extraordinary results in the field of research and development. Seven scientists or teams of scientists were awarded the Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic this year.

Otto Wichterle Premium
The Incentive Otto Wichterle Premium is addressed to young scientists. Twenty four young researchers were awarded the prize this year.

Vojtěch Náprstek Medal
Three publicists or scientists were awarded the Vojtěch Náprstek Medal for their activities in the popularization of science.

ETHICS
On the threshold of ethics and science

Top Czech scientists discussed the question: "Scientific and ethical questions of cloning”.

Moral uncertainity and teaching ethics
At the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology at Rio de Janeiro last December Prof. Szawarski (University of Warsaw) made a presentation. A Czech translation of his speech is offered.

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH Stairs paintings cycles – Great towers
Long time conserving of paintings at the Karštejn castle was the programme of a colloquium at the refectory of the convent Na Slovanech at May.

J. W. Cronin and high energy physics
American nuclear physicists J. W. Cronin was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980. He visited the Czech Republic in May and expressed to Czech scientists his appreciation for their participation in the Pierre Auger project.

NEWS FROM THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL
Report on the 47th session of the Academic Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Summaries of the 190th and 191st sessions of the Czech Government’s Research and Development Council.

PORTRAITS FROM THE ARCHIVES
Bohumil Baxa

The jurist and juristic historiographer Bohumil Baxa focused his interests on juristic history, constitutional law, and public and political life. He was executed in 1942.

AWARDS to leading Czech and foreign scientists

CULTURE AND THE SOCIETY
Awards of Živa – the oldest Czech journal of natural science.

Živa is a popular-science journal featuring the information from biological sciences. Živa celebrates 150th anniversary of its foundation by Jan Evangelista Purkyně. Writers of the best articles of the year 2003 were awarded.

Academic café
Thematic discussions are held every quarter at the Academia bookstore in Wiehl house in Prague.

Honour for Alois Schumpeter
Václav Klaus the President of the Czech Republic and the Schumpeter Prize winner as well dedicated a brass of Alois Schumpeter, one of the greatest economists in the first half of the last century, in Třešť (back cover).

ACADEMIA
The Lost Sea Inside Europe

Is visual reconstruction of the geological past in the Czech Republic. The authors of the book were awarded the Prize of the Foundation of the Czech Literature Fund this year.

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