Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:10:24 +0200https://english.radio.cz/astronomer-jiri-grygar-a-life-promoting-stargazing-and-scepticism-8581073© 2026 Radio Prague International It’s pretty fair to say that anybody in the Czech Republic who knows anything about astronomy has learned at least some of it from Dr. Jiří Grygar. Something of a Czech Carl Sagan, Dr. Grygar has been a frequent personality of Czech and Slovak television screens since his popular programme “Windows Wide Open to Space” in the late 1970’s. He was the chairman of the Czech Astronomical Society and is one of the founding members of the Czech club of sceptics, Sisyfos, which battles pseudoscience and charlatanism in the Czech media. I met Dr. Grygar in his tiny office at the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, and asked him to tell me about how he first became interested in his life’s passion. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/grygar_jiri_kongres.jpg?timestamp=1591432359 https://english.radio.cz/astronomer-jiri-grygar-a-life-promoting-stargazing-and-scepticism-8581073 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9