Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2006, V 76, N 1.

 
Science and Society
 
M. A. Pal’tsev, V. N. Smirnov, 
Yu. A. Romanov, and A. A. Ivanov 
Prospects of Using Stem Cells in Medicine 
p. 1   

Organization of Research
 
Yu. M. Evdokimov, M. A. Zakharov, and 
S. G. Skuridin 
Nanotechnology Based on Nucleic Acids 
p. 5   


On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium 
 

G. A. Zavarzin and V. N. Kudeyarov 
Soil as the Key Source of Carbonic Acid and 
Reservoir of Organic Carbon
on the Territory of Russia 
p. 12   

A Problem of General Scientific Significance 
(Discussion of the Paper) 
p. 22 


Problems of Ecology
 
 
L. V. Pivovarova, T. G. Korzhenevskaya, and M. V. Gusev† 
The Role of Science and Education in the Formation 
of Biological Competence 
p. 27   

V. V. Lebedev, E. I. Kupriyanova, and 
V. A. Kharitonov 
The Technology of Establishing Nature-Conserving
Geoinformation Systems 
p. 34   


Review
 
 
G. R. Ivanitskii 
Thermovision in Medicine 
p. 44   


Point of View
 
 
E. V. Balatskii 
The Professional Community of Economists: 
Western and Russian Models 
p. 54   

M. V. Karasev 
Mathematical Technologies on the Eve 
of a Nanorevolution: 
The Origin of Quantum Mathematics 
p. 60   


Profiles
 
 
E. L. Feinberg 
The Development of Radio in Russia 
(On the 125th Anniversary of the Birth 
of Academician N. D. Papaleksi ) 
p. 64

S. B. Levochkin, V. G. Svetlov, 
and V. N. Korovin 
The Keeper of the Safe Sky (On the 
Centenary of the Birth of Academician P. D. Grushin) 
p. 71

N. G. Solomonov and G. F. Krymskii 
A Great Scientist and Organizer of Science 
(On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of 
Academician N. V. Cherskii) 
p. 80 


History of Academic Institutions
 
 
E. N. Mirzoyan 
Two Hundred Years of the Moscow Society of Naturalists 
p. 85 

V. S. Rumak 
Why Are We Working in Vietnam? 
(On the Activities of the Russian–Vietnamese Tropical Center) 
p. 89   


Science News
 
N. A. Plate, G. Ya. Kovalenko, and Yu. K. Shiyan 
“No to Terrorism!” Say Scientists from Russia
and the United States 
p. 92 

G. A. Zavarzin 
The Evolution of the Biosphere: The View 
of Geologists and Biologists 
p. 97 


In the Book World
 
 
A. G. Arbatov 
Nikolai Inozemtsev: A Personality and the Times, 
Remembrances (Economist, Moscow, 2004), 
429 pp. [in Russian] 
p. 100 

I. A. Shapovalova 
20th-Century Literatures of the Peoples of 
Russia: A Dictionary, 
(Nauka, Moscow, 2005), 365 pp. [in Russian] 
p. 103 

E. N. Mirzoyan 
A. I. Grigor’ev and N. A. Grigor’yan, 
The Great Son of Russia: 
On the 155th Anniversary of the Birth 
of I. P. Pavlov 
and the Centenary of His Nobel Prize Award 
(Nauka, Moscow, 2004), 271 pp. [in Russian] 
p. 105 


Official Section
 
 
Awards and Prizes 
p. 107