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  Stephen Hawking

  Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.
  Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of physicians. In October 1959, at the age of 17, he began his university education at University College, Oxford, where he received a first-class BA degree in physics. In October 1962, he began his graduate work at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where, in March 1966, he obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relat

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  Terry Pratchett

  Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
  Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
  With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Emp

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  Stephen King

  Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne

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  Stephen Fry

  Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs.
  
  See also Mrs. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.

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  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia.
  
  In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a twelve-member commission that studied the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and national security.
  
  In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a nine-member commission on the Implementation o

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  Jorge Cham

  Jorge Cham is a Chinese-Panamanian post-doc best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He first started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University, and has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in three published book collections.
  
  Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech in 1997, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.
  
  In 2005, Cham began an invited speaking tour of over 80 major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination". In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic str

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  Lisa Sanders

  Lisa Sanders, M.D., is an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine. She writes the monthly column Diagnosis for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, and served as a technical advisor on Fox TV's House, M.D. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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  Paul C.W. Davies

  Paul Charles William Davies AM is a British-born physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. He has proposed that a one-way trip to Mars could be a viable option.
  
  In 2005, he took up the chair of the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics.

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  David Mitchell

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
  
  David Mitchell is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is one half of the comedic duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb, whom he met at Cambridge University. There they were both part of the Cambridge Footlights, of which Mitchell became President. Together the duo starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. The show received a BAFTA and won three British Comedy Awards, while Mitchell won the award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009. The duo have written and starred in several sketch shows including The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and most recently That Mitchell and Webb Look.

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  Roxane Gay

  Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. Her newsletter, The Audacity, where she also hosts The Audacious Book Club, can be found at audacity.substack.

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  Petra Soukupová

  Petra Soukupová je česká spisovatelka a scenáristka, laureátka literárních cen Magnesia Litera 2010 v kategorii Kniha roku za prózu Zmizet a Ceny Jiřího Ortena 2008 pro mladé literáty za knihu K moři.
  Absolvovala obory scenáristika a dramaturgie na Filmové a televizní fakultě Akademie múzických umění v Praze.
  
  K povídce Na krátko vytvořila scénář, za nějž v roce 2009 obdržela 3. místo v soutěži Cena Sazky za nerealizovaný scénář. Kniha K moři se stala předlohou pro napsání scénáře, za který obdržela nejvyšší ocenění ve 2. ročníku soutěže scenáristů Nadace Barrandov & RWE. Za triptych Zmizet byla vedle zisku Magnesie Litery také nominována na Cenu Josefa Škvoreckého.
  V letech 2008–2010 působila v televizi jako scenáristka seriálu Comeback, s Tom

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  S.J. Parris

  Pseudonym for author Stephanie Merritt
  
  S.J. Parris began reviewing books for national newspapers while she was reading English literature at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating, she went on to become Deputy Literary Editor of The Observer in 1999. She continues to work as a feature writer and critic for the Guardian and the Observer and from 2007-2008 she curated and produced the Talks and Debates program on issues in contemporary arts and politics at London's Soho Theatre. She has appeared as a panelist on various Radio Four shows and on BBC2's Newsnight Review, and is a regular chair and presenter at the Hay Festival and the National Theatre. She has been a judge for the Costa Biography Award, the Orange New Writing Award and the

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  Erik Tabery

  Erik Tabery, Jr. is a Czech journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the weekly newspaper Respekt.

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  Nathalie A. Cabrol

  French American astrobiologist specializing in planetary science. Cabrol studies ancient lakes on Mars, and undertakes high altitude scientific expeditions in the Central Andes of Chile as the Principal Investigator of the "High Lakes Project" funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). There, with her team, she documents life’s adaptation to extreme environments, the effect of rapid climate change on lake ecosystems and habitats, its geobiological signatures, and relevance to planetary exploration.
  She is the Principal Investigator of the SETI Institute NAI team, which was selected in October 2014 to develop new biosignature detection and exploration strategies in support of the upcoming Mars 2020 mission. She was appointed in August 2

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  Ivana Gibová

  Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut roka. Niektoré poviedky z knihy Usadenina boli preložené do nemčiny a angličtiny. Novela Bordeline (2014) sa stala predlohou pre rovnomennú inscenáciu divadla Stoka a pražského divadla Nekroteatro. V roku 2016 vydala knihu Barbora, boch & katarzia, ktorá bola nominovaná na cenu Anasoft litera 2017; získala cenu René Anasoft litera gymnazistov a bola nominovaná na Cenu Jána Johanidesa za najlepšiu prozaickú knihu autora do 35 rokov. V roku 2020 vyšla komixovo-poviedková kniha Eklektik Bastard.
  
  

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  Ľudovít Ódor

  Ľudovít Ódor je viceguvernérom Národnej banky Slovenska, vyštudoval špecializáciu matematika-management na Matematicko-fyzikálnej fakulte Univerzity Komenského. Pracoval ako analytik finančných trhov, ako hlavný ekonóm a riaditeľ Inštitútu finančnej politiky na ministerstve financií, pôsobil ako člen bankovej rady v NBS, bol poradcom premiérky a ministra financií, členom Rady pre rozpočtovú zodpovednosť a je hosťujúcim profesorom na Stredoeurópskej univerzite v Budapešti (CEU). Podieľal sa na viacerých významných hospodársko-politických rozhodnutiach na Slovensku a je autorom mnohých odborných publikácií. Napísal trilógiu Ekonómia z nadhľadu (Trend 2007), Krízonómia z nadhľadu (Trend, 2009) a Investovanie z nadhľadu (Trend, 2015).

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  Alena Mornštajnová

  Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V roce 2013 vyšel její debutový román Slepá mapa, který byl nominován na Cenu Česká kniha 2014.

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  Chris van Tulleken

  Chris van Tulleken is an associate professor at University College London and a practicing infectious diseases doctor with a PhD in molecular virology. A BAFTA-winning broadcaster on the BBC across television and radio, he lives with his family in London.

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  Hannah Fry

  Dr Hannah Fry is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. She works alongside a unique mix of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, architects and geographers to study the patterns in human behaviour - particularly in an urban setting. Her research applies to a wide range of social problems and questions, from shopping and transport to urban crime, riots and terrorism.
  
  Alongside her academic position, Hannah spends many of her days giving conference keynotes and taking the joy of maths into theatres, pubs and schools. She also regularly appears on TV and radio in the UK, most recently on BBC2's Six Degrees and in her own documentary charting the life of Lady Ada Lovelace.

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  Philipp Dettmer

  Philipp Dettmer is the founder and head writer of Kurzgesagt, one of the largest science channels on YouTube with over fourteen million subscribers and one billion views.

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  Scott Kershaw

  Scott Kershaw lives in Lincolnshire, in a Victorian cottage that was formerly ruled by mice. He likes the crackle of vinyl, the smell of paperbacks, the taste of a stiff drink and the view from a front row barrier. He’s getting too old and heavy for crowd-surfing, but that rarely stops him from trying. His first real love was cinema. His beagle, Darwin, is the one true king of dogs. As a child, Scott believed in monsters. Sometimes he still does. The Game is his debut thriller.

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  Marek Torčík

  Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a 2020 se stal jedním z desítky finalistů v česko-slovenské soutěži Básne SK/CZ". V roce 2023 vydal románovou prvotinu Rozložíš paměť. Za ni získal v roce 2024 Cenu Magnesia Litera za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena pro autory a autorky do třiceti let.

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  Nina Špitálníková

  Nina Špitálníková je česká koreanistka, odbornice na Korejskou lidově demokratickou republiku, aktivistka za ženská práva a také spisovatelka. Své knihy zatím směřuje právě k této ostře sledované části Asie – jedná se o tituly Propaganda v KLDR (2014) a Na studiích v KLDR s chytlavým podtitulem Mezi dvěma Kimy (2017).
  
  Angažuje se v aktivitách zaměřených na problematiku genderové nerovnosti a matek samoživitelek. V roce 2017 spoluzaložila projekt Woman on a mission, který má upozornit na znevýhodněné postavení žen v hudebním průmyslu. Pracuje v pražském multikulturním centru Crossclub jako produkční a dramaturg.(zdroj životopisu: KnihyDobrovský.cz)

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  Katie Mack

  Dr Katherine (Katie) Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist who studies a range of questions in cosmology, the study of the universe from beginning to end. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University, where she is also a member of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster. Throughout her career she has studied dark matter, the early universe, galaxy formation, black holes, cosmic strings, and the ultimate fate of the cosmos. Alongside her academic research, she is an active science communicator and has been published in a number of popular publications such as Scientific American, The New York Times, Slate, Sky & Telescope, and Cosmos Magazine, where she is a columnist.

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  Samuel Kováčik

  Samuel je teoretický fyzik, dizertáciu získal na FMFI UK, odkiaľ sa pobral na Dublinský Inštitút Pokročilých Štúdií, kde získal výskumný grant od Írskej výskumnej nadácie. Dnes znova pôsobí na FMFI UK a Masarykovej univerzite. V roku 2016 založil projekt Vedátor.
  
  Vo výskume sa zaoberá modifikáciami kvantovej mechaniky, numerickými simuláciami a maticovými modelmi. Karmu si napravuje písaním článkov o čo najnormálnejších témach ako oblaky, rôzne zvieratá či stromy.
  
  Samuel dodnes píše veľkú časť textov Vedátora, robí väčšinu obrázkov, nahráva a edituje Vedátorský podcast, chystá Vedastorky, spravuje túto stránku, Instagram, Facebook a Youtube kanál Vedátora. Vo voľnom čase trochu športuje (beh, gym, lozenie), číta, varí a hráva hry. Vydal knihu

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  Ladislav Kužela

  Doc. MUDr. Ladislav Kužela, PhD., MPH je slovenský gastroenterológ, autor mnohých odborných publikácií, vysokoškolský pedagóg, bývalý hlavný odborník MZ SR pre gastroenterológiu.

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  Vitalia Bella

  Vitalia Bella sa narodila na Ukrajine. Vyštudovala žurnalistiku na Filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave a v roku 2005 získala titul PhD. z etnológie a kultúrnej antropológie na FF UK s dizertačnou prácou zameranou na obraz rómskej menšiny v médiách. Od roku 2004 pracovala v týždenníku Eurotelevízia. V apríli 2019 nastúpila do Denníka N, kde je reportérkou a editorkou. Venuje sa hlavne témam výchovy, vzťahov a duševného zdravia a aj ľudským príbehom.

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  Jakub Stanjura

  Žije v Praze. Vystudoval anglistiku a bohemistiku na Univerzitě Karlově. Jeho románový debut Srpny (2023) o manipulaci a gaslightingu se ihned po vydání stal knižním bestsellerem, dočkal se divadelního zpracování a překladu do několika cizích jazyků. V říjnu mu vyjde druhý román Medúzy (2025).

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  Miroslav Hlaučo

  Miroslav Hlaučo (1967) vystudoval klinickou farmacii v Bratislavě, po ní také režii na DAMU a filmovou vědu na Filozofické fakultě v Praze. Po krátkém období, ve kterém se živil uměním, pracuje už řadu let v oblasti medicínského výzkumu a vývoje buněčných biotechnologií.
  
  

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  Colin Stuart

  Colin Stuart is a renowned astronomy speaker and best-selling author. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a 2014 runner-up for the European Astronomy Journalism Prize. He lives in London.

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  Vitalia Bella

  Vitalia Bella sa narodila na Ukrajine. Vyštudovala žurnalistiku na Filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave a v roku 2005 získala titul PhD. z etnológie a kultúrnej antropológie na FF UK s dizertačnou prácou zameranou na obraz rómskej menšiny v médiách. Od roku 2004 pracovala v týždenníku Eurotelevízia. V apríli 2019 nastúpila do Denníka N, kde je reportérkou a editorkou. Venuje sa hlavne témam výchovy, vzťahov a duševného zdravia a aj ľudským príbehom.

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  Joe Schwarcz

  Dr. Joe Schwarcz holds a PhD in chemistry and is host of the radio program The Dr. Joe Show, directo of McGill University's Office for Science & Society and the author of fourteen bestselling books. Well known for his informative and entertaining lectures, Dr. Schwarcz has received numerous awards for teaching and deciphering science for the public.

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  Ľudovít Ódor

  Ľudovít Ódor je viceguvernérom Národnej banky Slovenska, vyštudoval špecializáciu matematika-management na Matematicko-fyzikálnej fakulte Univerzity Komenského. Pracoval ako analytik finančných trhov, ako hlavný ekonóm a riaditeľ Inštitútu finančnej politiky na ministerstve financií, pôsobil ako člen bankovej rady v NBS, bol poradcom premiérky a ministra financií, členom Rady pre rozpočtovú zodpovednosť a je hosťujúcim profesorom na Stredoeurópskej univerzite v Budapešti (CEU). Podieľal sa na viacerých významných hospodársko-politických rozhodnutiach na Slovensku a je autorom mnohých odborných publikácií. Napísal trilógiu Ekonómia z nadhľadu (Trend 2007), Krízonómia z nadhľadu (Trend, 2009) a Investovanie z nadhľadu (Trend, 2015).

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  Helen Thomson

  Helen Thomson is a writer and consultant with New Scientist. She has also written for the Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC Future and Psychologies and has won various awards for her journalism.
  
  Her research has taken her from coffee with five psychopathic mass murderers in Broadmoor to poking around in the Large Hadron Collider.
  
  She has exclusively revealed plans for the world's first head transplant, learned how to rule at roulette, had her fat zapped, scrubbed up for a cutting-edge prostate cancer operation and watched a paralysed man walk for the first time using a mind-controlled exoskeleton.
  
  But her greatest fascination remains writing about the brain, especially those that don't look like everyone else's.
  
  Helen has a BSc in Neuroscience and an

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