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esearch of 15 aspirants for the candidate degree. He is a commission member of the
GKNT, and on the natural sciences committee for developing research methods into
the dynamics of fluids, and a member of the working group of the natural sciences
federation on information processes. In 1991, he was named the Director of the
Computer Technology Institute of the Siberian Department of the RAS in
Novosibirsk, and in 1992 he became Head Scientific Secretary for the Siberian
Department of the RAS.
Shumnii, Vladimir K., D. Bio. S. Born in 1934. Biologist. Specialist in the field of
experimental genetics. Corresponding member since 1979, and academician since
1992. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1958 and joined the
Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Department upon graduation
passing successively through positions as laboratory assistant, junior and senior researcher,
and from 1970 to 1985, Deputy Director and in 1985, Director of that
institute. He joined the Presidium of the Siberian Academy in 1980. He is Chairman
of the Scientific Council on the Biological Sciences(1988). He has been on the
national academy’s Presidium since 1980. He has been a professor since 1979,
holding the chair in cytology at the Novosibirsk State University. He is Chairman of
the Siberian Department’s V. I. Vavilov Genetics and Selection Society. The Altai
International Center for Humanitarian and Biospheric Research. was established in
1991. The center will involve the collaboration of three major bodies: the United
Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy in Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk, the
Cytology and Genetics Institute in Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk, and the Gorno-
Altai Republican Soviet in Gorno-Altaisk, Russia. As Director of the Institute of
Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Department located in Akademgorodok-
Novosibirsk, Dr. Shumni will play a major role in the development of this
international research institute.
Skrinskii, Aleksandr N., D. PM. S. Born in 1936 in Orenburg. Russian physicist.
Corresponding member since 1968, and academician of the Nuclear Physics
Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Siberian Department
since 1970. He joined the Presidium of the Siberian Department in 1980. He
graduated from Moscow State University in 1959. He joined the staff of the Institute
of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Department of the AN SSSR in 1959, becoming
Deputy Director in 1972 and Director in 1977. He has been a professor at the
University of Novosibirsk since 1969, holding the chair in nuclear physics. Since
1977, he has been Head of the Storage Rings Laboratory and Director of the Budker
Nuclear Physics Institute in Novosibirsk that is subordinate to the academy's
Siberian Department. The institute was created in 1957 and is the leading nuclear
research facility in Siberia. It studies controlled thermonuclear reactions, particularly
magnetic confinement fusion, and accelerator technology. The institute is located on
the shores of Lake Ob in Academgorodok that is 35 km south of Novosibirsk. There
are 21 research institutes and the Novosibirsk University located in
Academgorodok. The institute employs approximately 3, 000 scientific workers.
His work includes high energy physics and physics and technology of chargedparticle
acceleration. In 1980, he was named to the Presidium of the Siberian
Department of the Academy. Since 1988, he has served as Academician Secretary to
the Nuclear Physics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He developed,
with others, a method of colliding beams. Lenin Prize, 1967. (GSE 23, p.
513.)
Sobolev, Nikolai V., D. GM. S. Born in 1935. Geologist. Specialist in Mineralogy and
petrology. Corresponding member since 1981, and academician since 1992. He
graduated from L’vovsk State University in 1958. He worked at the Mineralogical
museum at the university. In 1960 he joined the Geology and Geophysics Institute
of the Siberian Department, working as a junior and senior researchers and Head of
the Laboratory of High Pressure Minerals (1973). In 1983, he became Deputy
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