H. 



WOODS 

 HOLE, 



MASS. 



PREFACE 



The purpose of this volume is to present to the Western world 

 the biographies of leading Soviet scientists. This is done in an 

 attempt to bring a better understanding on the part of the West 

 of the outstanding achievements of the scientists of the East. It 

 is further hoped that this volume will facilitate a scientist to 

 scientist contact and thereby lead to fruitful individual collabor- 

 ation. 



The material presented has been obtained from sources scat- 

 tered throughout Soviet literature. A copy of the manuscript was 

 sent to the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences three 

 months before presenting it to the publisher. Individual biogra- 

 phies were sent to the Soviet scientists for approval or for cor- 

 rection. Unfortunately, the Academy was not able to check on 

 the manuscript. On the other hand, many Soviet scientists have 

 graciously corrected their biographies. For this we are thank- 

 ful. 



This work was facilitated in its early stages by Professor 

 George Krugovoy, William Causey, Valentina Kaye, Olga Plos- 

 chek, Boris Sovetov. 



The financial support of the National Science Foundation and 

 the help of the members of the division of Foreign Science Infor- 

 mation of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Arthur Shanahan 

 and Miss Rita Lupina, are gratefully acknowledged. 



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