Science and society Is the number of “nobels” proportional to salary? 10.29.2008 / no comments On October 12, B.G. Saltykov, Minister of Science and Technical Policy of the Russian Federation in 1991-1996, and now the president of the Russian House of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation association, took part in a live broadcast of the Ekho Moskvy radio.

Currently, at the initiative of the heads of the Ministry of Education and Science, the issue of evaluating research institutes is being discussed. The initial for discussion was the document proposed by the ministry, which regulates the appraisal criteria for the research of the Research Institute. Until the end of October, it is proposed to finish its discussion and offer amendments.

DECREE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION “On the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of science and innovation for young scientists” In order to support young scientists and specialists and enhance their participation in innovation activities, I decide: 1. Establish three awards of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of science and innovation for young scientists in the amount of 2.5 million rubles each. <…> President of the Russian Federation D.

“I think we must develop different directions, but also such as mathematical and natural science education in schools. Firstly, we have always been famous for this, and secondly, now it may become very in demand again because the presence of such an education, such opportunities creates a base for the development of the country. The words of US President Kennedy that they lost to the Russians at a school desk. You need to remember this. " President of the Russian Federation D.

The weekly bulletin of sociological reports of the Public Opinion Foundation dated October 9, 2008 presents the views of Russians on the status and role of the teacher, and assesses the situation in school education. The sociologists' conclusions are based on an analysis of the results of sociological surveys in 2001-2008, in which Russians expressed their opinion about the level of school education and the competence of school teachers.

II. Christian names In the previous part of our article (TRV No. 13n), it was mainly about the non -Christian names of the Rurikovich, such as Rurik (= Hrorekr), Oleg (= Helgi), Igor (= Ingvarr), Svyatopolk, Mstislav, Vladimir. The princes themselves called them "Russians", "princes" or "worldly." In ancient chronicles, it is these worldly, the names of the rulers of the X-XII centuries are much more often mentioned.

From the editor The decision to exclude the journal from the “VAK list” was made after attention was drawn to the scandalously low—almost zero—level of publications in the journal by an experiment conducted by TrV. A manuscript of absolutely meaningless text generated by a computer program was sent to ZhNPAiD (see TrV No. 13N, as well as the text of the article “Rooter: an algorithm for typical unification of access points and redundancy” on the TrV website).

- What is the path of a journalist and scientist to scientific popularization, according to your observations, is the most typical? How did you come to scientific popularization? - Everyone has this path.

- The exam will be implemented as prescribed in the federal law. There will be no kickbacks back, ”the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko began yesterday, one of the most, perhaps, of the principal colleges on the issue of a single state exam. The fundamental because already in November all documents regarding the exam should be accepted. However, today we can say with confidence: next year graduates will have to take Russian and mathematics without fail.

Russian physicist Alexei Kitaev, graduate of Fiztekh (1986), who defended his candidate dissertation (1989) and worked at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Landau, received a Grant Genia - a scholarship in the Makanturov Foundation for his work in the field of quantum physics. For five years, he will receive 100 thousand US dollars every year. A.

If you start with Nobel Prizes, this is the most prestigious, loud, bright prize, although, of course, prizes, especially in the last 20-30 years, have become much more ... “Nobel” is individual achievements. But on what shoulders are giants standing? On the shoulders of the scientific community. And in this sense, always in Russia, and even in the USSR, there were disputes -why are we so few “nobels”? There is no definite answer.