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Directors or associate Directors of major scientific research laboratories and two are
heads of major divisions of one of the institutes. Three members were elevated
because of age to advisory status to the national academy Presidium.
Academicians--age analysis: The average age of the 18 academicians of the Nuclear
Physics Department in 1991 was 76.4 years--the oldest member being 99 years old,
and the youngest 55. The Universities and Institutes producing 15 of the 18
academicians of the Nuclear Physics Department included: the Moscow State
University with 9, and the remaining six graduated from six different universities or
institutes. These include the University of Petrograd in St. Petersburg from which
the oldest member of the Department (99) graduated, the Moscow Physical
Engineering Institute, the University of Voronezh, the Leningrad Polytechnic
Institute, Leningrad State University, and the University of Rome. The three
academicians whose institutions are not known at present all hold the doctoral degree.
Corresponding Members--age analysis: The average age of the 24 corresponding
members whose birth dates are available was 67 years in 1991. The oldest was 81
and the youngest was 46 years old. Only two of the 27 corresponding members of
the Nuclear Physics Department appear to hold no degrees. Of the 25 remaining the
institutions from which 14 of those graduated is known and includes: Moscow
State University with five graduates, Leningrad State University with five
graduates, the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute with two, and the University of
Lvov, and the Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute each graduated one.
Period of Greatest Growth: The greatest growth in numbers of scientists during the
1970s was in the Nuclear Research Institute in Moscow, as Figure 15 shows:
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Assignment of Personnel to SRI's under the
Nuclear Physics Department, 1971-80
No. of Persons
80
'60 '65 '70 '75 '80 Total
Nuclear Research
Institute, Moscow
Figure 15
B. P. Konstantinov Nuclear Physics
Institute, Leningrad
Note: These Institutes were split off from the Ioffe and the Lebedev Physics
Institute in 1971 and transferred to the jurisdiction and control of this new
department. In the Nuclear Research Institute in Moscow, the personnel included 37
senior department and sub-department heads and 10 senior researchers and 44
junior researchers. In the Leningrad institute, 40 senior department and
sub-department heads and senior researchers and 23 junior researchers.
Compiled from: CR 80-13202, pp. 290-292 and 296-298.
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