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Into East Berlin to help celebrate a Communist "Book Week" came a Stalin Prizewinning Russian novelist. But he did not stop there. He walked straight through the Brandenburg Gate and claimed refuge in the West. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Cheishvili, 55, won a Stalin Prize in 1951 for a drearily-written novel called Lelo, which told how boy and girl, after quarreling, got reunited by working together to overfill their production quotas on a collectivized Georgian tea farm...
Just a year ago, a Russian announcement made the back pages of American newspapers, if it got in at all. It appeared to be only one more Soviet boast -and a pretty fanciful one at that. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, flatly declared on June 1, 1957 that the Russians "have created the rockets and all the instruments and equipment necessary to solve the problem of the artificial earth satellite." Had Nesmeyanov made a similar statement last week about Russia's readiness to make a trip to the moon, his declaration would have made...
Massive Concentrations. Fortnight ago the U.S. announced that it had solved the re-entry problem for ballistic missiles, but Aleksandr Nesmeyanov claimed the same thing for his own country back in 1956. The Russians set off the first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...
...Elite. No one better symbolizes the status of the Russian scientist than Aleksandr Nesmeyanov, 58, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and titular head of all Russian science. The son of a school principal, he became a distinguished chemist in his own right, headed the University of Moscow during the period when its skyscraper (39 stories) campus became the tallest structure in Europe east of the Eiffel Tower. With his wife, who was once one of his students, Nesmeyanov has a spacious apartment near the academy and a sizable dacha outside of town. Though a member of the party...
...fields, we've always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize for his work on the conditioned reflex, and four years later, Ilya Mechnikov won another for his studies of the destruction of bacteria by white...