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of neutrino diagnostics; development of existing and devising new methods of
experimental nuclear and particle physics for experiments with high and super high
intensity particle beams, and investigating adiacent fields of science and engineering
in biology, medicine, radiation and radiochemistry, special material science, etc.,
and using the nuclear physics installations for these purposes. The institute was
assigned a number of sites for research and observation: at Troitsk, in Prielbrusie in
the Karabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Republic in the Caucasus, over the bank of
the Baikal l, and at the town of Artyomovsk in the Ukraine. From 1970 to 1986, it
was directed by its founder Professor A. N. Tavkhelidze, a Lenin Prize winner.
Since 1987, the institute has been headed by Professor Viktor A. Matveev, also a
Lenin Prize winner. He sits on the Nuclear Physics Department Bureau governing
body. The institute is comprised of eight research departments, three laboratories,
two observatories, nine scientific engineering departments, two computer centers,
experimental production units and 65 other divisions. In 1991, its personnel
numbered some 2210 persons of whom there were three academicians and one
corresponding member of the AN SSSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences, 30
doctors of science, 9 professors, and 140 candidates of science. Scientists who
have contributed to the development of the institute include: M. V. Keldysh,
(Keldish) M. A. Markov, B. T. Zatsepin, A. E. Chudakov, I. M. Frank, V. M.
Lobashev, S. K. Esin, and I. V. Shtranikh, and V. D. Burlakov. Director
Professor V. A. Matveev, since 1987.
(Troitsk: ego istoricheskoe proshloe i nastoiashchee, Moscow: Moscow
Typographis No. 5, 1991, 48 pp. A brochure printed in both English
and Russian. See pp. 12-14 for information on the Institute.)
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3. B. P. Konstantinov Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) in St. Petersburg.
Located in the St. Petersburg region at Gatchina, 188350. (For telegrams:
St. Petersburg, BLIK-322772.) Under the direction of Professor
Vladimir A. Nazarenko. (E-mail: vnazar@inpi.spb.su)
PNPI Short Historical Background
Retrospect:
In picturesque suburb of Leningrad, at ancient town of Gatchina, the construction of the
brand of the A.F.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of
the former USSR began in 1954, where the research activities in the field of nuclear
physics must be concentrated. In December 1959 the research reactor WWR-M was
put into operation? and in 1970-1 GeV proton synchrocyclotron, remaining the
main physical facilities of the Institute up to the present. By that time the direction
of bioloagical investigations was formed.
In 1971 the branch of the PTI was reorginazed into an independent Institute named in
honour of Academician B. P. Konstantinov who played a decisive role in its
advancement. In 1992 it received the name "Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute"(
PNPI). In 1994 PNPI was given the status of State Research Center of Russia.
At present the staff of the Institute includes more then 600 scientists and about 1000
engineers, among them there are 62 doctors and 275 candidates of science. The
works carried out in the Institute were awarded Lenin and State Prizes,
B.P.Konstantinov Academic Prize, 5 scientists were elected Corresponding
Members of the Academy of Sciences.
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