Volume 75, Number 4, 2005

Contents
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Inc.
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ISSN 1019-3316.

Science and Society

G. G. Malinetskii, A. V. Podlazov, and I. V. Kuznetsov

On a National Scientific Monitoring System p. 323  abstract

V. S. Arutyunov and A. L. Lapidus

The Role of Gas Chemistry in World Power Engineering p. 337  abstract

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

A. V. Vatulin

Uranium, Plutonium, Polonium, and Tritium: The Nuclear Shield and Peaceful Energy p. 347  abstract

Ya. A. Al’tman

Acoustic Virtual Reality (Physiological Foundations) p. 353  abstract

A. M. Vasil’ev

Islamic Extremism and the Crisis of Muslim Civilization p. 361  abstract

V. D. Kuznetsov, I. A. Zhitnik, and I. I. Sobel’man

CORONAS-F: The Contribution to Solar–Terrestrial Physics p. 370  abstract

Point of View

A. Z. Seleznev

On the Efficiency of Reforms in the Sphere of Science p. 380  abstract

T. I. Oizerman

Is it Possible to Foretell the Distant Future? p. 387  abstract

Profiles

E. A. Fedosov

The Designer of the Famous MIGs
(On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician A. I. Mikoyan) p. 393

R. N. Shcherbakov

“Above all, Live and Breathe with Your Work …”
(On the 125th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician A. F. Ioffe) p. 399

A. S. Spirin

Andrei Nikolayevich Belozerskii and the Formation of Molecular Biology
(On the Centenary of His Birth) p. 404

Science News

I. N. Meshkov and G. D. Shirokov

Particle Accelerators as the Focus of Research Problems p. 412

In the Book World

V. D. Zhirnov

Science, Society, and the Human Being, Ed. by V. S. Stepin
(Nauka, Moscow, 2004), 415 pp. [in Russian] p. 415

Yu. Yu. Byalovskii and V. V. Davydov

V. A. Chereshnev, The Immunity of the Individual and Society
(RAS Ural Division, Yekaterinburg, 2004), 316 pp. [in Russian] p. 417

E. I. Kolchinskii

L. L. Kiselev and E. S. Levina, Lev Aleksandrovich Zil’ber (1894–1966):
A Life in Science (Nauka, Moscow, 2004), 599 pp. [in Russian] p. 418

M. A. Manuil’skii

A Challenge to Cognition: Strategies for Scientific Progress in the Modern World
(Nauka, Moscow, 2004), 475 pp. [in Russian] p. 421

Official Section

Awards and Prizes p. 424

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