Status: read in Czech

It's hard to find anyone in the Czech Republic who doesn't admire the famous scientist and inventor Otto Wichterle. Everyone knows the only Czech Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Jaroslav Heyrovsky, the discoverer of Polarography. The three best-known Czech researchers include the chemist Antonín Holý, whose research has produced drugs for AIDS and other viral diseases. What do the children of these brilliant scientists actually do? What about the descendants of other successful Czech researchers? Did they inherit "scientific genes" from their famous parents? And what qualities and inclinations are among these "scientific genes"? Is it intelligence, the ability to concentrate, strong will, or other thinking and seeing of the world? Curiosity? Did inherited talents, or rather the example of parents, set them on the path of a scientist, a role model? In the book, the authors seek answers to the questions above. 

Rating: It is an interesting and above all very readable book with a number of often complex and difficult stories of great Czech names that meant something to science and often still do. This is a very inspirational read for someone interested in the history of science, especially Czech one.