President Vladimir Fortov did not rule for the Russian world-renowned scientists in the membership of the Academy of Sciences – Ekho Moskvy radio station

He said in Washington on a working visit.
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov and Grigory Perelman can become academicians. “I think they have yet to come” – said Forts, answering the question TASS about why scientists of world renown are not members of the RAS.
In an interview with “Echo of Moscow» Fort explained that nothing is impossible in this no .
Vladimir Fortov said that if the vote for the election of the game, Novoselov and Perelman academics takes place, it just will vote “for”. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov are now working in the UK. In 2010, they received the Nobel Prize in Physics for “excellence with two-dimensional material – graphene.” Grigory Perelman gained fame due to the fact that the first was able to prove the theorem of Poincare.
The president Vladimir Fortov had previously been elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. It is located in Washington in connection with his inauguration. Forts stressed that even in the worst times in academies of the two countries was the realization that science out of politics and his visit is intended to give new impetus to their interaction.