“Science people in general on the drum”

Due to the fact that 81% of Russians could not name a single Russian scientist and contemporary, “Herald” expert interviews conducted among eleven researchers active in various fields of science.

“In areas that are not related to the field of my scientific training, I am a complete ignoramus, and I know only those scientists whose names are on the rumor, because they either received a prize, or had to give, or gave it to themselves, - said the biologist Konstantin Severinov. - Strictly scientific significance of their work to me as a layman, is difficult to estimate, and do not be unscientific PR, I would have about them a little I knew. ”

According to Academician Yevgeny Alexandrov, the reason for such opinion poll results is that the “public consciousness of the Russian population deployed in the mercantile way, and science classes not profitable and had lost its former prestige.

“The deplorable decline in interest in science and culture as a whole continue”, - says Alexander.

Echoes, and nuclear physicist from CERN, Alexander Nikitenko: “I think the reason is that fewer and fewer people are somehow involved in scientific work.”

Historian Igor Alekseev draws attention to the fact that “scientific literature goes even minuscule, and the microscopic circulation, promotion of science as a form of human activity there at all, even of higher education, mass is increased, the fundamental scientific component rapidly disappears, giving place to the learning of foreign achievements. ”

Political analyst Nikolai Borisov: “The prestige of the scientific profession is reduced, most prominent scientists working abroad, in Russia’s weak integration of science and education, public interest in the science of falling”, and “the scientists themselves poorly popularize its activities.”

“On the one hand, it reflected the decline of interest in science in society - schitatet geofaka MSU assistant professor Andrei Panin. - But the important reason for this decline - decline in domestic research, the almost complete absence in recent years the domestic achievements of truly world-class, who would recognition of the international scientific community (with rare exceptions - Perelman). This is clearly the figures. ”

Medic Igor Yefimov thinks that a prominent Russian scientist, his contemporaries in Russia is not there.

Crystallographer Artem Oganov, who believes that Russia has now very few world class scientists: “The most well known names,” organizers of science “- the names of some known and open - no.”

“Priorities are different now - a society through the media knows the names of the oligarchs, athletes, writers, actors, not scientists, not artists. Probably because that science is difficult to make money. For the same reasons in America, too little known by contemporary scholars. Maybe be, such is the purpose of scientists and artists - to be unknown during his lifetime, but acknowledged after his death? “Science does not fit well in the laws of the market.”

“Modern science: How and to whom it interesting?” - Opinion poll.

26 March 2011

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