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Physicist elected new head of Russian Academy

The general assembly in Moscow of the Russian Academy of Sciences today (May 29) elected plasma physicist Vladimir Fortov as new president of Russia’s largest basic research organization.

Fortov, director of the academy’s Joint Institute for High Temperatures in Moscow,  succeeds mathematician Yuri Osipov, 76, who has led the academy since 1991.

Russian scientists, plagued by low salaries and scarce grant money,  hope that Fortov, 67 will refurbish the increasingly unproductive academy.  The former deputy prime minister and former science minister in the Russian government is considered reform-friendly. In the run-up to the elections, he promised a set of measures to run the academy more efficiently and rejuvenate its aging workforce.

The academy employs some 45,000 scientists at 436 research institutes across Russia.

 

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    Vladimir Leonov said:

    You cannot assess the potential of Russian science objectively. Science in Russia develops privately by scientists who left the walls of the Academy of Sciences. For example, I created the theory of Superunification:
    1. Leonov V. S. Quantum Energetics. Volume 1. Theory of Superunification. Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2010, 745 pages. https://www.cisp-publishing.com/acatalog/info_54.html.
    2. V.S. Leonov. Quantum Energetics: Theory of Superunification. Viva Books, India, 2011, 732 pages. https://www.vivagroupindia.com/frmBookDetail.aspx?BookId=7922.
    I wrote about the theory of Superunification in his comments on the sites of the Nature:
    https://www.nature.com/news/report?article=1.10932&comment=45770
    https://www.nature.com/news/report?article=1.9262&comment=29681
    https://www.nature.com/nature/report/index.html?comment=19113&doi=10.1038/471006a
    https://www.nature.com/news/report?article=1.10371&comment=40954
    The theory of Superunification makes Russia a world leader in the field of fundamental science and this must be considered.
    https://www.blogger.com/profile/03427189015718990157

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