Thursday, November 5, 2015

Scientists have urged the government to check the Kurchatov Institute – RBC

The Council on Science at the Russian Ministry of Education called on the government to check the personnel policy in the NRC “Kurchatov Institute” in connection with information about the attempt of dismissal, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Danilov, under the pretext of downsizing. It is said in a statement posted on the website of the Board.

In its statement, the Council also requests the Government to consider “the need to protect the leading Russian scientists from possible administrative arbitrariness in law».

“It is incomprehensible logic of the leaders of the ITEP [Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. A.I.Alihanova] dismisses the redundancy of the most active scientist who created the international reputation of the institution and among other things, providing a significant contribution to the number of top-rated scientific publications ITEP “, – said in a statement the scientists.

According to them the reason for the dismissal of Daniel “does not lie in the scientific plane” and can be linked to citizenship physics. The Council expressed concern that his dismissal “could be perceived Russian and world scientific community as an open throwback to the days when the ban on the profession was used as a tool to crack down on opponents».

«dismissal MV Daniel harms Russian science and the expense of the Russian Federation “, – said the scientist said in a statement.

The fact that the famous physicist Mikhail Danilov, winner Planck Karpinski, was dismissed from the National Research Centre” Kurchatov Institute ” in late October, said “Times”. The administration pointed out that the institution is no longer places the relevant academic qualification.

Daniel made Acting Chief Scientific Officer, put to work in the lab, then shut down all the jobs that he could not apply for other positions, dismantled a laboratory, and then – his most cutting staff, explained physicist Andrei Rostovtsev, one of the founders of the “dissernet.”

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