Dean of Journalism at Moscow State University Yasen Zasursky (left) at the 2006 Triumph Sceince Awards
Photo: Ilya Pitalev
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Triumph Science Prize Winners Announced
The fifth Triumph-Science Prizes were awarded yesterday to Russian scientists “for a significant contribution to the development of world and domestic science.” Each winner selected by the jury headed by Academician Yury Ryzhkov received a gold medal, a certificate and an envelope containing the number of a bank account containing $50,000.
The prize was established in 2000 by the Triumph – New Age Foundation. That independent foundation has an annual budget of $2 million. It is sponsored by political emigrant Boris Berezovsky, Head of the Georgian national Olympic Committee Badri Patarkatsishvili and Nikolay Glushkov, who was implicated in the so-called “Aeroflot case.”
This years winners are Academician Yury Kagan in the Physics and Mathematics category, Academician Arkady Shipunov in Mechanics and Technical Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences vice president and director of the Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis Nikolay Plate in Chemistry and Material Sciences, Academician Anatoly Grigoryev in Life Sciences and Medicine, Academician Nikolay Yushkin in Earth Sciences and dean of the Journalism Department of Moscow State University Yasen Zasursky in Humanities Sciences.
Shipunov is the founder of the Russian school of guided weapons design. More than 50 weapons have been created under his supervision, including the Metis, Konkurs and Kornet antitank missile systems, Vikhr missile, Shmel flamethrower and GM-94 grenade launcher. Discoveries by Plate have been instrumental in the development of personal protection systems against poisonous gases and of the first form of insulin that does not require injection to treat diabetes. Grigoryev has conducted a number of experiments on man's adaptation in space. Yushkin has participated in the discovery of 50 mineral deposits in Russia. Zasursky, who has led the MSU journalism department for half a century, received the prize “for a significant contribution to the development of domestic and world journalism.”
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