Word: nesmeyanov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked at a party meeting why he spoke that way." Lysenko himself was invited to speak. He attacked Alexander Nesmeyanov, president of the Academy of Sciences (TIME Cover, June 2) and V. A. Engelhardt, head of its biology section, in the same truculent language as in the '40s and with the identical arguments that "middleclass" and "foreign reactionary" ideas animated their opposition to his "Marxist" theories...
...accident that all this coincided with fairly strong criticism of Khrushchev's educational reform plan by Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has come to glorify Soviet scientific achievements as the unique outgrowth of Marxist philosophy. Lysenko is not the type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than...
Something less than wholehearted approval of the new plan came from Alexander Nesmeyanov ( TIME Cover, June 2 ), president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In a Literary Gazette article, he observed mildly that interrupting a student's education tended to make him forget what he had learned. Neither was Nesmeyanov enthusiastic about night schools; it would be better, he wrote, if teen-agers studied in the morning, when their heads are clear...
...Russians made good use of the West in their all-out effort to surpass the West. The academy's All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, which Nesmeyanov founded in 1953, publishes, 48 times a year, a periodical of abstracts of major scientific papers from all over the world. The companion Institute of Scientific Information puts out 400,000 abstracts a year. U.S. efforts in the abstracting field are puny by comparison: of the 2,200 science journals published in the Soviet, the U.S. translates only 200. Americans who have been to Russia consider this scientific clearing house...
...Hold Aloof. Academy President Nesmeyanov seems the very model of the independent scholar and gracious host. But the academy's general secretary is a cop type named Topchiev, whose job it is to keep the "party character" alive within the academy. Through Topchiev, the party still belabors scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along...