15.05.2013 00:01:00
intrigue of the election of the next head of the RAS ceases to be sluggish
Andrew Vaganov
Academician Yuri Osipov (right) and Vladimir fort. 20 and possibly 21 th president of the RAS. Photo ITAR-TASS
Yesterday at a meeting of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences was a sensation that few expected: a permanent December 1991 President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov, withdrew his candidacy from the ballot Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences on how to choose the priority of the candidate for president of the Academy. Election of the new President of Russian Academy of Sciences to be held May 29 at the General Meeting of the RAS.
Spokesman for the Russian Academy of Sciences Irina Presnyakova in an interview with “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” confirmed, “This means that Yuri finally withdrew his candidacy in the presidential elections of Sciences. The ballot will not be his last name. ” Thus, it remains three candidates for the post of President of the RAS: RAS Vice-President Jaures Alferov, Alexander Nekipelov and Academician-Secretary of the Department of Energy, Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes, Vladimir fort. Their nominations were approved on April 26.
It sounds corny, but it really is true: the departure of Yuri Osipov from the post of president of the RAS ends an epoch in the history of the world’s largest scientific organization. Largely due to his efforts alone, but his personal contacts with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and managed to save the Russian academic science from extinction and de facto and de jure in 1990.
Fixed assets in the amount of RAS 10 trillion. rub. (At 1996 prices) remained with her.
Academician Yuri Osipov had already reserved a place in history. Just by definition, the 20th president of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the whole period of its existence, the first president after the collapse of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Osipov – a figure sign. While this may not be so obvious. Yuri – a member of a dozen foreign academies and international scientific societies, honora ry professor at several universities, Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1976), State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (1993), the holder of an order more than once, even Knight (Order of the White Cross, the World Confederation of Knights (Australia .) Born in Tobolsk, a graduate of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Ural State University – “this is the way many famous» …
The main slogan of Yuri Osipov has always been a “preservation of academic traditions.” In this case, the RAS main danger to himself sees in the proposals for the transformation of the Academy in “unimportant Scientists Club».
Whatever it was, Academician Alexander Spirin in 2008 publicly called for Osipova to withdraw his candidacy for the presidential elections of Russian Academy of Sciences. But then Yuri Osipov made a difficult decision for themselves – go for a fifth term. And he won the election. But it is n ot a clear advantage: literally in his back breathed another contender – Academician Vladimir Fort; gap between them was only a few dozen votes. (For comparison, in the presidential elections of Sciences in 1996, when rival Yuri Osipov was Academician Yevgeny Velikhov for Osipova voted 777 out of 1,025 scientists in attendance at the General Meeting of the RAS.)
Of course, now the main issue of concern to all those interested in academic science – who is the main contender?
It is important to have someone announce its candidate Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences. Formally, it was the 67-year-old academician Forts, the famous physicist, an expert on extreme states of matter, the winner of many prestigious science awards, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Fund “Skolkovo”. “Most of the members of the Presidium of Vladimir Fortova chosen as a priority candidate for the post of head of the academy, his name will take the top spot on the ballot for the general election – explained Irina Presnyakov. – The names of the other candidates will be placed on the ballot in alphabetical order below: Zhores Alferov and Alexander Nekipelov. ” For the academic community (among academics today half in 75 years) the opinion of the Presidium of the RAS may be decisive. Despite all the “academic free spirit”, academicians disciplined people.
However, one member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who asked not to be named, shared his thoughts on the future President of Russian Academy of Sciences: “There were no significant changes will occur, who would have chosen.” Osipov was very hard. But even harder to have the 21 th President of the Academy (whoever that was). It may well be that it is necessary to solve a specific problem: how to make the 21 th President of the Russian Academy of Sciences did not begin its last president.
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