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“…I Want to Have Freedom of Research; Otherwise, I Will Be Limited in My Work” A Good Journal for Inquisitive People Th ere is no room 1 (48) scfh.ru/en/ in ancient history 1 2018 so far for the army of stone horsemen pertifi ed SCIENCE on the slopes First Hand of the Pir Panjal THE LIFE mountain range, OF A CHEMIST Himalayas № 1 (48) 2018 RIDERS LOST IN THE HIMALAYAS SELECTION In June 2017, this was the site OF THE BEST of a Russian-Indian FRIEND archaeological expedition launched to find and describe stone horses, enigmatic statues “…I want to have A GARDEN BORN lost in these remote areas BY INSPIRATION of the western Lesser Himalayas freedom of research; otherwise, I will be limited in my work” 9 772310 3000024 78 2018 1. popular science journal IN THIS ISSUE: Vladimir Ipatieff, the inventor of technology for the production of polyethylene and high-octane gasoline, was called in 1937 the Man of the Year in the USA and deprived of academic title and citizenship in the USSR There is no room in ancient history so far for the army of stone horsemen pertified on the slopes of the Pir Panjal mountain range, Himalayas The publisher of Science will donate several thousand copies of the book about the Siberian experiment on fox domestication as a gift to the American schools Meditation prevents the shortening of the telomeres which protect the chromosomes from damage during cell division Even a trivial dandelion from the Bonsai Park has an extraordinary story to tell: the creator of this living collection found it at the other end of the world – up in the Andes! A Journal for Inquisitive People “The natural desire Editorial Board of good men is knowledge” Leonardo da Vinci Editor-in-Chief Dear Friends, RAS Member Nikolay Dobretsov Periodical Popular Science Journal Deputy Editor-in-Chief RAS Member Valery Bukhtiyarov Published since January 2004 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Three issues a year The focus of the new issue is on the fate of two outstanding RAS Member Valentin Vlassov Founders: Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) Russian scientists, one of whom was born together with Deputy Editor-in-Chief the Soviet Russia while the other by that time had already RAS Corresponding Member Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics (SB RAS) achieved worldwide recognition. Natalia Polosmak Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography November 2017 marked 150 years since the birth Deputy Editor-in-Chief (SB RAS) of Vladimir N. Ipatieff, the most prominent chemist RAS Member Vasily Shabanov Limnological Institute (SB RAS) of the twentieth century, whose name was little known Executive Secretary Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy Lidia Panfilova (SB RAS) in Russia until recently. He oversaw the development Institute of Chemical Biology and of chemical industry in the last years of the reign of Nicholas II RAS Member Igor Bychkov Fundamental Medicine (SB RAS) and supervised its restoration after the revolution; he was RAS Member Anatoly Derevyanko Trofimuk Institute of Oil and gas Geology and Geophysics (SB RAS) a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council RAS Member Mikhail Epov Limited company INFOLIO and the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union. RAS Corresponding Member Publisher: Limited company INFOLIO However, after the death of Vladimir Lenin, Ipatieff was Mikhail Fedoruk Address: ousted from all the posts and was awaiting arrest amidst RAS Member Mikhail Grachev 11, Zolotodolinskaya Street, Novosibirsk the Stalinist repressions, which had affected many of his RAS Member Aleksandr Latyshev 630090, Russia colleagues and students. In 1930, he went abroad, together released a book How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog), Cand. Sc. Nikolay Nikulin Tel. +7 (383) 330 37 33, 330 27 22 Fax: +7 (383) 330 26 67 with his wife, to participate in the International Congress and dedicated to his famous evolutionary experiment RAS Member Valentin Parmon seek treatment, first in Germany, then in the United States, on the domestication of foxes. Unfortunately, according RAS Member Nikolay Pokhilenko e-mail: [email protected] and never came back to his home country. to Lyudmila N. Trut, one of the authors of the book, a student [email protected] In the United States, Ipatieff, who was already in his and follower of Belyaev, whose memoirs became the core [email protected] Editorial Council seventies, successfully continued his research, which he of our publication “Selection of the Best Friend,” all attempts The Journal is registered began in the Soviet Union. The inventions that made him to publish the book in Russia have failed. RAS Member Lyubomir Aftanas at the Federal Supervision Agency RAS Member Boris Bazarov for Information Technologies and famous include the catalytic cracking of oil, the production In 2018, the publisher of the Science magazine – RAS Corresponding Member Communications of high-octane gasoline, and the first synthesis of polyethylene. the American Association for the Advancement of Science Evgeny Berezhko Certificate El No. FS77-37579 In 1937, the Americans named Ipatieff the Man of the Year – (AAAS)—announced this work as the best young adult of September 25, 2009 RAS Member Vladimir Boldyrev by that time, he had been deprived of both membership science book of the year. Every year, the AAAS selects winners RAS Member Andrey Degermendzhi ISSN 2310-3000 in the USSR Academy of Sciences and of Soviet citizenship. among popular science books in four categories, and last Dr. Sc. Aleksandr Elert Date of publication 15 May 2018 For the rest of his life, Ipatieff, who had not won a Nobel year, as a result of its partnership with Subaru of America, RAS Corresponding Member Open price Prize only by mistake, lived in a modest hotel, literally out more than 76 000 winner books were donated to American Anatoly Fedotov All rights reserved. Reproduction in part of a suitcase, hoping that someday he would return to his schools. This year, the AAAS ordered an additional edition Dr. Sc. Mikhail Fokin or whole is allowed only with written homeland. The fate of this outstanding chemist, which we of the book that would tell thousands of American students authorization of the Editorial Office Dr. Sc. Anatoly Kharitonov described in this issue, serves as a vivid example of how a state about the unique experiment of the Russian geneticists. © Siberian Branch RAS, 2018 RAS Member Nikolay Kolchanov can irresponsibly, even rascally waste its intellectual wealth. Unfortunately, Russian students will have no such opportunity © INFOLIO Publishing House, 2018 RAS Member Alexei Kontorovich In 2017, the global community celebrated the 100th birth any time soon. However, this event is a good reason to pay Professor Egon Krause (Germany) Editorial Staff © Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor A. Kharkevich Physics (SB RAS) 2018 anniversary of another well-known Russian scientist – heed to the American experience for all those who are RAS Member Gennadii Kulipanov Cand. Sc. L. Ovchinnikova Academician Dmitry K. Belyaev. This year, a US publisher concerned about the future of Russian science. Dr. Sc. Semen Kutateladze © Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography L. Panfilova (SB RAS) 2018 RAS Member Mikhail Kuzmin Cand. Sc. M. Perepechaeva © Limnological Institute (SB RAS) 2018 Professor Janusz Lipkowski (Poland) A. Mistrukov © Sobolev Institute of Geology and Academician Nikolay L. Dobretsov, RAS Member Nikolay Lyakhov T. Morozova Mineralogy (SB RAS) 2018 Editor-in-Chief RAS Member Vyacheslav Molodin Cand. Sc. E. Ignatova © Institute of Chemical Biology and Dr. Sc. Mikhail Moshkin Translated Fundamental Medicine (SB RAS) 2018 RAS Corresponding Member into English by © Trofimuk Institute of Oil and gas Geology I. Adrianova Sergei Netesov and Geophysics (SB RAS) 2018 Dr. Sc. Aleksandr Petrov A. Kobkova RAS Member Anatoly Shalagin N. Tumanova T. Bulyonkova RAS Member Vladimir Shumny Professor Valery Soyfer (USA) scfh.ru/en/ HISTORYY OF SCIENCE. SCIENCE DESTINIESDESTINIES PEOPLEPEOPLE .01 6 V. B. Fenelonov .04 62 A. V. Baranova The Life of a Chemist Nullius in verba, or is Yoga useful... ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPEDITIONS MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS .02 28 N. V. Polosmak .0505 72 Yu. V. Ovchinnikov, E. A. KorKorolyukolyuk Riders lost in the Himalayas A GardenGarden Born byby InspirationInspiration HISTORY OF DISCOVERY .03 48 Selection of the Best Friend HISTORY OF SCIENCE. DESTINIES • Chemistry V. B. FENELONOV Th e Life of a Chemist You, Russians, cannot even comprehend who Vladimir Ipatieff was. Every hour of his life here, in the United States, every step in his research, he dedicated it all to Russia. His limitless love for his motherland, which I have never seen in any of the emigrants, was the soil on which grew the outstanding results of his scientifi c work... Herman Pines, chemist; student, friend, and the executor of the will of Vladimir N. Ipatieff , 1967 This article is dedicated to a great Russian scientist, an outstanding chemist Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff, the founder of the science and practice of heterogeneous catalysis at high temperatures and pressures, whose 150th birthday anniversary was celebrated on November 21, 2017. It was about him that Richard Willstätter, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in chemistry, said in 1942 that never in the history of chemistry had there been a greater man than Ipatieff. The life path of this great scientist is described both in his own writings and in those by his students and researchers of his creative work. In some countries, for example, in the United States, it is believed that Russia produced three outstanding chemists: Lomonosov, Mendeleev, and Ipatieff. In Russia, however, the name of the latter received the recognition it deserved only in the last decades. In 2011, the Kalvis publishing house printed, in two volumes, the first Russian reedition of Ipatieff’s book The Life of a Chemist. Memoirs (New York, 1945); another autobiographical volume dedicated to his life in the United States in 1930–1941 (Ipatieff, 1959), as well as some other works, will soon be published.
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