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In this week's Czech Science we'll be looking at a topic relevant not only in the Czech Republic - and that is women in science. I talked to Marcela Linkova from the National Contact Centre Women and Science, whose aim is to promote women in scientific professions, and asked her first why women could be considered a separate category in Czech science.

In this week's edition of Czech Science we look at a new encyclopaedia that has just been published. In 2000 and 2001 the Euromedia Group publishing house put out a ten-volume encyclopaedia called Universum, which contained 150,000 entries and was awarded in the Dictionary of the Year contest the following year. Last autumn a multimedia version of the encyclopaedia was published and was awarded the main prize in the same contest. A four-tome version followed and finally, last week a single-volume, up-to-date edition of Universum came out, containing

Last week, Czech academics marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Czech scientist and legendary inventor of the contact lens and the synthetic fibre "silon", Professor Otto Wichterle, who died five years ago. Those who had a chance to meet him, his former students and colleagues remember Otto Wichterle not only for his achievements in science and research but also for his exceptional personality.