{"id":23743,"date":"2016-03-18T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/interview-with-pavel-exner-ahead-of-his-70th-birthday"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:39:05","slug":"interview-with-pavel-exner-ahead-of-his-70th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/interview-with-pavel-exner-ahead-of-his-70th-birthday","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Pavel Exner ahead of his 70th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interview-with-pavel-exner-ahead-of-his-70th-birthday.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Going back to the start, how did you come to studying Theoretical Physics?<\/p>\n<p>As with most people my path was determined by a series of choices involving random factors. I liked mathematics and physics at school, and did well in the olympiads, but I liked also literature, history, etc. At the age of fourteen I choose a technical-type high school oriented at nuclear disciplines, as popular then as they are despised by many these days, probably because it was one of the most difficult and challenging ones.<\/p>\n<p>The way from there to the Technical University was straightforward. Since I have the need to understand things from the first principles, I drifted gradually towards theoretical physics and it was only natural that in the middle of my studies, corresponding roughly to the bachelor degree nowadays, I ended up at the Theoretical Physics Department of the Charles University, where I subsequently graduated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/jphysplus.iop.org\/2016\/03\/18\/interview-with-pavel-exner-ahead-of-his-70th-birthday\/\">http:\/\/jphysplus.iop.org\/2016\/03\/18\/interview-with-pavel-exn...-birthday\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going back to the start, how did you come to studying Theoretical Physics? As with most people my path was determined by a series of choices involving random factors. I liked mathematics and physics at school, and did well in the olympiads, but I liked also literature, history, etc. At the age of fourteen I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62348,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions\/62348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}