Lev Klein With all the abundance of memoir and biographical literature, the figure of Leo Gumilyov remains mysterious. The mysterious remains its complete neglect of scientific methods and principles in most works - they are completely absent. Therefore, the scientific community of Russia does not recognize it, although it is frantically popular outside science. The mysterious remains his now undoubted anti -Semitism. It was a painful fact for many of his friends.

Over the past month, two hot news appeared in the media from the largest accelerators - Tevatron (Fermilab, USA) and the Big Adron Collider (Cern, Switzerland). Moreover, in other network comments, people mix this news in something unified confusing type “Scientists from Tevatron on the BAK opened an unknown science“ Particle of God ”called Bozon Higgs.

The phenomenon of radioactivity (spontaneous transformation of atomic nuclei into other cores with energy release) was discovered by the French physicist Antoine Henri Beckerel 115 years ago. True, at that time the existence of nuclei was not yet guessed and, under radioactivity, understood spontaneous removal of some substances of rays, causing darkening of photographic plasters and the glow of phosphors.

When Andrei Fursenko came to the ministry, he almost immediately tried to realize the idea that many then seemed very attractive. Why smear money with a thin layer? Let's allocate serious funds, but at the exit we will demand a serious result, and not a report dusting on a shelf.

E. G. Maksimov (1938-2011) A talented, uncompromising, combat physicist, the largest specialist in high-temperature superconductivity, corresponding member of the department of physics and astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Grigoryevich Maksimov, passed away. He was not only a direct student of V.L. Ginzburg, but also inherited the style of the school of Ginzburg - was even more “sharp”, more “notorious” physicist than Ginzburg.

“He has an accounting machine, he calculates everything. Now he knows the amount of water in Lake Baikal, and he divides it into a portion that was drunk per day ... He, as it were, participates in the management of the country, ” - Mikhail Zhvanetsky gave excellent advice that can be successfully used to predict the development of Russian science. We make all the articles of the budget “To Science” for 2011 and we will receive about 163 billion rubles.

Photo archive SB RAS I got the impression that many participants in the discussion1 inattentively read my article and did not think through the technology of the actions I proposed. For some reason, no one paid attention to the main argument, which consists in the fact that the average age of scientists of the Academy of Sciences far exceeds creative age.

Almost all science fiction books about the future, written before the widespread use of computers, now look unreliable. Even the story “Waves Quench the Wind,” published in 1988, evokes this feeling. Spaceships roam the expanses of the Universe, and COMCON-2, meanwhile, continues to print the results of its calculations on paper tapes. There are almost no paper documents left; who will remember them at the end of the 22nd century?

S.P. Mikheev (1940-2011) On April 23, 2011, Stanislav Pavlovich Mikheev, a world -famous scientist, had a huge impact on the development of physics of neutrinos and neutrinic astrophysics. He worked at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the first days of his education, having traveled from the younger to the chief researcher. S.P. Mikheev in collaboration with A.Yu.

The Russian Foundation for Basic Research, created in 1992, according to the prevailing opinion of scientists, is the most effective and least corrupt channel for financing science. Its share was only 6% of the citizen science budget (after 2008 it fell to 2.6%), but this 6% made a significant difference in the climate. How does the RFFI differ from other financing systems?

Announcement of the issue RFBR haunts... (page 1) Boris Stern There are serious reasons to believe that the Russian scientific community may lose the RFBR in its usual and well-established form as a result of the adoption of the new charter of the foundation. According to this document, the foundation will not be able to support a wide range of research and decide for itself what to fund and what not.

There are topics that classical science bypasses. There are many reasons for this. For example, the lack of proper tools necessary for the study of "unidentified" phenomena. Or the scientific snobbery of individual researchers who do not want to spoil their reputation by studying dubious things. Among such dubious things is intuition. D. Mayers. Intuition. Opportunities and danger. St. Petersburg: Peter, 2011. - 272 p.

View > Home / Science news / Digital Number May 10, 2011 TrV No. 78, p. 12, Andrey Kalinichev Category: Science News no comments 469 views, 36 - today International students in France The number of foreign students in France has increased sharply in recent years: between 2002 and 2009. it increased by 25%. In 2010, 214 thousand foreigners were enrolled in universities in France, i.e. about 10% of all applicants.

Rice. V. Bogorada The chief researcher at the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Samokhin reflects on the kaleidoscope of “various little things” of academic life. “The Russian Academy of Sciences was established by order of Emperor Peter I by Decree of the Governmental Senate of January 28 (February 8), 1724. It was recreated by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 21, 1991 as the highest scientific institution of Russia ...

Gulelmo Marconi (Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, 1874-1937). Photo from the site http://podcast.prx.org The sacramental question "Who invented the radio?" It just does not have a definite answer. To create devices for wireless transmission of messages using electromagnetic waves, no less than a dozen university professors and self-taught techies in Western Europe, Russia (this is, of course, Alexander Popov), America and even India.