An Irreplaceable ManOn the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences S.R. Mikulinskii

Abstract

An outstanding scientist and organizer of science, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences S.R. Mikulinskii (1919–1991), who in the 1960–1980s determined the general line of development of the history of science and laid the foundations of the science of science, went through a life full of tragic events. His biography included years of study, participation in the Great Patriotic War, years of Nazi captivity in Germany followed by imprisonment in Soviet concentration camps, and a rapid scientific career unexpectedly interrupted by expulsion from the Institute of the Natural History and Technology (IIET) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which he himself had fostered. Under his direction, the IIET of the USSR Academy of Sciences employed prominent scientists of the most diverse specialties, and the Institute reached the highest level of development, becoming the center of historical and scientific thought recognized in the world.