Volume 73, Number 1, 2003

Contents
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from MAIK “Nauka / Interperiodica” (Russia).
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ISSN 1019-3316.

Science and Society

K. Ya. Kondrat’ev, K. S. Losev, M. D. Ananicheva, and I. V. Chesnokova

The Price of Russia’s Environmental Services p. 1  abstract

M. A. Pal’tsev

Biological Security p. 12  abstract

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

V. M. Lobashev

Measurements of the Mass of the Neutrino in Tritium Beta Decay p. 17  abstract

The Neutrino Mass: A Fundamental Problem of Physics
Discussion at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences p. 26

Review

A. S. Spirin

Ribonucleic Acids: The Key Link of Living Matter p. 30  abstract

Point of View

A. I. Rakitov

Science and Science Studies in the 21st Century p. 40  abstract

Interview

In the 21st Century Physics Will Still Be in the Vanguard p. 50  abstract

Essay

I. L. Andreev

A Handless Dial p. 54  abstract

Profiles

E. P. Velikhov

From the Nuclear Bomb to Nuclear Power Stations
On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician I.V. Kurchatov p. 62

V. V. Rumyantsev

Devotion to Science
On the Centenary of the Birth of N.G. Chetaev,
Corresponding Member, USSR Academy of Sciences p. 68

N. A. Chernoplekov

A Beacon of the Age
On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician A.P. Aleksandrov p. 75

V. S. Chesnokov

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: His Life and Discoveries p. 90

Discussion Forum

G. R. Ivanitskii

A Delusion or a Hoax? p. 95  abstract

A. I. Vorob’ev

A Commentary p. 100

K. P. Ivanov

Pseudoscience Stems from Incompetence p. 101

Times and Mores: Memoirs, Letters, Diaries

N. V. Karlov

Power of the Intellect p. 104  abstract

Letters to the Editor

D. S. L’vov

From V.I. Vernadsky to N.N. Moiseev p. 110

Reflections on a New Book

G. A. Agranat

Geography: The Achievements of a Science, the Success of a Scholar p. 111

In the Book World

L. I. Leont’ev

Metallurgicheskie zavody Urala XVII–XX vv.: Entsiklopediya
(Ural Metallurgical Works in the 17th–20th Centuries: Encyclopedia),
Editor in Chief Academician V.V. Alekseev, Yekaterinburg: Akademkniga, 2001, 536 pp. p. 115

V. V. Dam’e

XX vek. Kratkaya istoricheskaya entsiklopediya, t. 1
(The 20th Century: A Concise Historical Encyclopedia, vol. 1),
Moscow: Nauka, 2001, 478 pp. p. 118

G. A. Shpil’ko

Innovatsionnaya ekonomika (Innovational Economics), Moscow: Nauka, 2001, 294 pp. p. 120

V. V. Ermakov

G.N. Saenko, Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky: Uchenyi i myslitel’
(Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky: Scientist and Thinker), Moscow: Nauka, 2002, 235 pp. p. 122

Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 124

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