Herald of RAS, 2003, V 73, N 3.

Scientific Session of the RAS General Meeting 

From Nanostructures to the Knowledge Economy
Diary of the Scientific Session of the RAS General Meeting 
p. 247 

Science and Society

A. M. Prokhorov 
Can RAS Compete in the World Market of Ideas
and High Technologies? 
p. 249   


On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium
 

F. M. Mitenkov 
Marine Nuclear Power Engineering 
p. 254   

Marine Nuclear Power Engineering—Russia’s
National Achievement 
p. 259 

50th Anniversary of the Discovery of DNA
  

L. L. Kiselev 
An Anniversary of the Most Important Molecule 
p. 261

E. D. Sverdlov 
DNA in a Cell: From a Molecular Icon to the
Problem of “What Is Life?” 
p. 262 

V. L. Karpov 
DNA, Chromatin, and the Histone Code 
p. 270   

Interview
   

The Sun Will Shine for Another Five Billion Years 
p. 278   


Review
    

I. A. Shmerlina 
The “Physics” of Sociality 
p. 284   


Science Life
     

N. L. Laverov and L. A. Vedeshin 
Studies of the Earth from Outer Space:
Russian–American Cooperation 
p. 294 

E. M. Syresin and G. D. Shirkov 
Accelerator Physics in Russia 
p. 298


In the Book World
      

M. P. Roshchevskii 
A.D. Nozdrachev, A.T. Mar’yanovich, E.L. Polyakov,
D.A. Sibarov, and V.Kh. Khavinson, 
Nobelevskie premii po fiziologii ili meditsine 
za sto let (The Nobel Prizes for Physiology 
or Medicine over 100 Years), St. Petersburg: 
Gumanistika, 2002, 688 pp. 
p. 301 


Yu. V. Natochin 
E.I. Kolchinskii, Neokatastrofizm i selektsionizm:
Vechnaya dilemma ili vozmozhnost’ sinteza? 
(Istoriko-kriticheskie ocherki) (Neocatastrophism
and Selectionism: Everlasting Dilemma 
or Possibility of Synthesis? (Historical–Critical Studies)), 
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2002, 554 pp. 
p. 303 


G. G. Kirilenko 
P.V. Alekseev, Filosofy Rossii XIX–XX stoletii.
Biografii, idei, trudy. 4-e izd., pererab. i dop. 
(Russian Philosophers of the 19th–20th Centuries:
Biographies, Ideas, and Works), 
4th edition, revised and updated, Moscow: 
Akademicheskii proekt, 2002, 1152 pp. 
p. 305 

A. I. Aksenov 
I.N. Yurkin, Demidovy—uchenye, inzhenery, 
organizatory nauki i proizvodstva. 
Opyt naukovedcheskoi prosopografii 
(The Demidovs: Scientists, Engineers, 
Organizers of Science and Production: 
An Experiment in Prosopography), 
Moscow: Nauka, 2001, 333 pp. 
p. 309


Official Section
       

Awards and Prizes 
p. 311 


At the End of the Issue
        

Ya. G. Rokityanskii 
“The Obvious and Incredible”: A Window
on the World of Science 
p. 316