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  Saint Petersburg State University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Petersburg State University (Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет) one of the oldest Russian educational institutions, established in the city of Saint Petersburg on January 28, 1724 by decree of Peter the Great.
In the period between 1803 and 1819 the University formally did not exist; the institution founded by Peter the Great - Saint Petersburg Academy - had already been disbanded, whereas the institution that was later used as basis for the Saint Petersburg University was still known as the Main Pedagogical Institute (Главный Педагогический Институт).
St Petersburg University occupies a group of early 18th-century buildings on the Neva embankment of Vasilievsky Island.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Petersburg_State_University   (191 words)

  
 Johann Warkentin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He studied English language, literature and culture at the University of Leningrad and upon returning home for his first vacation he found that his father had been arrested (he was never to see him again).
In the spring of 1942 The blockade of Leningrad saw the city and its people starving and dying and in the spring of 1942 his wife and, some weeks later, himself were expelled and deported to Siberia.
After the war, the University of Leningrad summoned its surviving former students who where then dispersed over the whole country and he and his wife returned.
www.aeweb.org /profiles/johann.htm   (333 words)

  
 Aleksandrov_Aleksandr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aleksandrov was appointed as Professor of Geometry at Leningrad University in 1937.
In 1940 the Leningrad Branch of the Mathematical Institute was founded and it had among its members Aleksandrov, Kantorovich, Linnik, and Faddeev.
In 1964 Aleksandrov left Leningrad and moved to Novosibirsk where he was appointed as Head of the Department of Geometry of the University of Novosibirsk.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Aleksandrov_Aleksandr.html   (1134 words)

  
 Subbotin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Subbotin graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1914 and began his career with an appointment as a junior astronomer at the university.
The Russian University of Warsaw was evacuated to Rostov-on-Don in 1915 and Subbotin went with the rest of the university.
The University of Leningrad was re-established at Saratov and by the end of 1942 Subbotin was in Saratov as the Director of the Leningrad Astronomical Institute.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Subbotin.html   (842 words)

  
 The Rand Transcript
The transcript reports that Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, born in 1905, entered the university on 2 October 1921 and graduated from the Social Pedagogical Division of the Faculty (or College) of the Social Sciences of Leningrad State University.
After graduating Leningrad University, she entered a two-year program at the State Institute for Cinematography, in Leningrad, as a means of honing her writing craft for the screen.
But as a Leningrad University professor, a member of the Academy of Sciences, and a model for women educators, Dr. Dobiash was first and foremost a cultural historian.
www.nyu.edu /projects/sciabarra/essays/randt2.htm   (9055 words)

  
 University of Healing - About Dr. Beierle - Healing, God, Metaphysics, Spiritual, Success
Dr Beierle was educated at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin, the University of Chicago and the Chicago Theological Seminary, Unity School of Christianity in Lee's Summit Missouri and United Church of Religious Science, Los Angeles, California.
His Russian presentations at the University of Moscow and University of Leningrad, and Charles University in Prague and many other seminars in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Africa caused such a clamor for his teachings in Europe, Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, China and Asia he travels the world on this sharing mission.
His mark on the universe is already made and he leaves the world immeasurably better for his passing through.
www.university-of-healing.edu /hbeierle.htm   (420 words)

  
 A.D.Alexandrov. Leningrad Geometric School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Alexandrov was appointed as Professor of Geometry at Leningrad University in 1937.
In 1940 the Leningrad Branch of the Mathematical Institute was founded and it had among its members Alexandrov, Kantorovich, Linnik, Markov, and Faddeev.
In 1964 Alexandrov left Leningrad and moved to Novosibirsk where he was appointed as Head of the Department of Geometry of the University of Novosibirsk.
www.univer.omsk.su /LGS/alex.html   (1177 words)

  
 Androgynous - it mejks things quite clear (slika, jel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
By age twenty he had already graduated from the University of Leningrad with a degree in physics and mathematics, and by age twenty-eight Dr. Kozyrev was widely known as a distinguished astronomer who had taught at several colleges.
Kozyrev’s abundant life took a most unfortunate and difficult turn in 1936, when he was arrested under the repressive laws of Josef Stalin, and in 1937 he began eleven torturous years enduring all the known horrors of a concentration camp.
He knew that in the mid-1800s, Louis Pasteur discovered that the building block of life known as “protoplasm” is inherently not symmetrical, and that colonies of microbes grow in a spiral structure.
www.blog.hr /print/?id=22942   (364 words)

  
 Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
Petersburg University and Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics at the St. Petersburg branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science.
Finally, in 1954 she was appointed Professor at Leningrad University and in 1961 she became director of the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics at Steklov Institute (Leningrad branch) where her mathematical successes soon brought her wide recognition, both in the Soviet Union and abroad.
In 1939 she passed the entrance examinations to study at prestigious Leningrad University, at that time the best University in the Soviet Union; however, as the daughter of a "class enemy" she was not admitted.
www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/ladyzhen.htm   (1408 words)

  
 D'YAKONOV
In 1930-31 D'yakonov was a researcher in both the regional museum and the Uzbek Scientific Research Institute in Samarqand, and in 1931 he spent several months in a similar position at the Ukrainian Institute of Oriental Studies in Kharkov.
From then until 1941 he was at the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, becoming head of the Iranian and Near Eastern section in 1934 and director of the Oriental Department in 1938.
In 1949 he was promoted to university professor, and in 1951 he became secretary of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of the History of Material Culture, subsequently rising to director.
www.iranica.com /articles/v7/v7f6/v7f650.html   (840 words)

  
 IOWA WOMEN'S ARCHIVES - Helene Scriabine Papers
Begin text here:»Helene Scriabine (Elena Skrjabina), author and Professor Emerita of Russian at the University of Iowa, was born on February 13, 1906 in Nizhny Novrgorod (Gorky), Russia.
After Leningrad: From the Caucasus to the Rhine (1978), about  life in Pyatigorsk, her escape to Bendorf, and the time there until the Allied evacuation in 1945; and
Biographical information series (1940-1996) includes documents, passports, university records, biographies of Scriabine, and interviews focusing on her life and her publications.
sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /iwa/findingaids/html/ScriabineHelene.htm   (1091 words)

  
 The George Gamow Memorial Lecture Series - His Life
After graduation from the University of Leningrad in 1926, he attended summer school in Gottingen and decided to see if the newly-formulated quantum theory, so successful in explaining the structure of the atom, could also be applied to the atomic nucleus.
Through research he was able to explain the then-mysterious phenomenon of natural radioactivity as well as the experiments of Lord Rutherford on the induced transformation of light elements.
While attending the International Solvay Congress in Brussels, he was invited, in the summer of 1934, to lecture at the University of Michigan.
www.colorado.edu /physics/Web/Gamow/life.html   (515 words)

  
 Amplified Mind Power Research In The Former Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A year before, Leningrad writer Vladimir Lvov had published an article in the leading French daily, LE MONDE, in which he asserted categorically: "The truth is simple: parapsychology is not accepted as a legitimate and official branch within Soviet science.
Later accounts identified the sender or inductors as "Smith" a student at Duke University, who was confined in one of the Westinghouse laboratory's buildings during the experimental period.
University of Leningrad, Laboratory on the Physiology of Labor; Department of Physiology, Laboratory of Biological Cybernetics.
www.angelfire.com /or/mctrl/ebon.htm   (14711 words)

  
 The People of LMU Math   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Michael Grady is Professor of Mathematics and the Chairman of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University.
Herbert Medina is Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University.
Cathy Herrera is the Administrative Assistant for the Mathematics Deartment at Loyola Marymount University.
cse.lmu.edu /mathematics/people.htm   (1509 words)

  
 Adelphi University: Global Health Symposium: Speaker Bios
Previously, he was assistant professor of health policy at the University of California, San Francisco's Institute for Health Policy Studies, and post-doctoral research fellow at UCSF's Program in Medical Anthropology.
A visiting professor at the University of Paris-IX, the University of Rennes, France, and other institutions, he was the recipient of a German Marshall Fund Award, a National Institute of Health Fellowship and others.
Professor Rodwin has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and received a Master's Degree in Public Health and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, both from the University of California, Berkeley.
events.adelphi.edu /conferences/globalhealth/bio_rodwin.php   (327 words)

  
 George Gamow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was educated at theNovorossia University in Odessa (1922 –23) and at the University of Leningrad (1923 – 1929).
He then worked at the Theoretical PhysicsInstitute of the University of Copenhagen, from 1928 to 1931 with a break to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, he continued to studythe atomic nucleus (proposing the "liquid drop" model) but alsoworked on stellar physics with Robert Atkinson and Fritz Houtermans.
He remained in Washington until 1954, then working at University of California, Berkeley (1954), University of Colorado (1956 - 1968).
www.therfcc.org /george-gamow-15633.html   (278 words)

  
 The Bruce Medalists: Viktor A. Ambartsumian
Viktor Ambartsumian was born in Georgia and educated at the University of Leningrad.
While at Pulkovo he also taught at the University of Leningrad and wrote the first Russian textbook on theoretical astrophysics.
Most of his research was devoted to invariance principles applied to the theory of radiative transfer, inverse problems of astrophysics, and the empirical approach to the problems of the origin and evolution of stars and galaxies.
phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/ambartsumian/Ambartsumian.html   (392 words)

  
 В.Н. Никулина. CV
1962 – 1968, Assistant of the Faculty of Biology University of Leningrad.
Nikulina V.N. (1979) Periphyton of the northern coast of the Lake Issyk-Kul In: Winberg G.G. (Ed.) Experimentalnye i polevye issledovania biologicheskih osnov produktivnosti ozer, Leningrad, pp.50-57 (In Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. (1982) Phytofouling in the Gorskaya Bay of the Lake Onezhskoe In: Winberg G.G. (Ed.)Limnologicheskie issledovania na zalive Onezhskogo ozera Bolshoe Onego, Leningrad, pp.109-114 (In Russ.)
www.zin.ru /labs/freshwater/cv_nikulina.htm   (588 words)

  
 Wiley::Head-Space Analysis and Related Methods in Gas Chromatography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He is professor and director of the Gas Chromatography Laboratory at Leningrad State University, in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. He is the author of more than 200 publications and of six monographs and textbooks.
His research interests include: physical methods for the investigation of organic compounds; gas chromatography—particularly head-space analysis by GC; gas chromatography—mass spectrometry; chemistry of the derivatives of hydrazine and hydroxylamine; and chemistry of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and of reaction intermediates (nitrenes, carbonium ions).
He is a Senior Research Scientist in Organic Chemistry at Leningrad State University, in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. He is the author of more than 60 publications and of a textbook on gas chromatography.
www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471065072,descCd-authorInfo.html   (239 words)

  
 Leningrad Geometric School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leningrad geometric school is an area of modern geometry.
A.D. Alexandrov was born on August 4, 1912, in the Volyn' village of the Ryazan' region.
In 1929 he became a student of the Physics Department of Leningrad State University (USSR), from which he graduated in 1933.
www.univer.omsk.ru /LGS   (557 words)

  
 A Life in a Nutshell -- Miklos N. Szilagyi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I hardly survived the war and served both as president of a university and as an unemployed refugee.
I was educated in Hungary and Russia: M.S. in Engineering Physics (with honors) from the Polytechnical University of Leningrad, Ph.D. from the Electrotechnical University of Leningrad, D.Tech.
As a university professor, a frequent public speaker, and a regular seminar leader on issues of social philosophy, I have many years of experience in public speaking on topics rooted in the humanities.
www.u.arizona.edu /%7Emns/life.html   (348 words)

  
 Kuzmin Biography
In 1971 he graduated with honors from the Oriental Department of Leningrad University, with a B.A. and M.A. in the history of China, and the following year studied at Nanyang University, Republic of Singapore.
In 1974 he received a Ph.D. from the Oriental Department of Leningrad University with a thesis on modern Chinese ideology.
In 1995 he was awarded a Soros Foundation Fellowship and earned a second M.A., in Political Science, the Central European University of Budapest, Hungary.
www.aug.edu /Cullum_Series/2005/bios/kuzmin.html   (481 words)

  
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Students earning advanced placement credits from high school, and those earning credits in the University at Albany’s University in High School Program, will be expected to register for the next course in the language sequence.
Students may apply for admission to the honors program by submitting a letter of request to the program no later than April 15 of the sophomore year (for admission in the fall) or November 15 of the junior year (for admission in the spring).
In qualifying for the M.A., students will meet all University and college requirements as outlined in the Graduate Bulletin, including completing a minimum of 30 graduate credits, and any conditions such as a research seminar, thesis, comprehensive examination, or other professional experience where required, and residency requirements.
www.albany.edu /undergraduate_bulletin/2003-2004/depts/program_slavic_eurasian.doc   (3519 words)

  
 INCR, Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leningrad Institute of Cytology and Leningrad Institute of Exp. and Clinical Medicine, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
Leningrad Institute of Cytology, State Optic Institute, Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Factory Union, Leningrad Institute of Gynecology and Center for diagnostics and medical treatment of human infertility, Leningrad, USSR.
Molecular Biology of Eukaryotic Cells at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the Polytechnic University, Leningrad, USSR
www.tau.ac.il /lifesci/incr/breslercv.htm   (1641 words)

  
 Petrograd Physico-Mathematical Society
It met fortnightly, with Smirnov as president, and particularly Smirnov and Aleksandr Aleksandrov (the Rector of the University of Leningrad) continued to work towards official recognition.
In 1959 it became possible to formally reconstitute the Leningrad Mathematical Society and, on 13 April 1959, the Ministry of Higher Education accepted the constitution of the Society.
Linnik was elected president, and Smirnov was given the role of honorary president.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Societies/Petrograd.html   (550 words)

  
 Wassily Leontief - Autobiography
I was born August 5, 1906, and spent my childhood and youth in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) where my ItalianCharms father was a professor of economics.
Among my early indelible memories are: the country plunged into deep mourning the day of Leo Tolstoy's death; stray bullets whistling by during the first days of the February Revolution; Lenin addressing a mass meeting from a high tribune in front of the Winter Palace.
Moved to the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York in 1931 and to the Department of OnlinePrescriptionsEconomics at Harvard University in 1932.
ca.geocities.com /econ_0909meet/leontief-autobio.html   (431 words)

  
 Samra University of Oriental Medicine - Faculty A - Ho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She earned her M.D. from Da Lian Medical University, China, and served on the staff of the Beijing Medical University, where she specialized in the research and treatment of infectious diseases.
At the Regional Hospital of the University of Nimes-Montpelier in France, he performed research on acupuncture using radioisotope tracers for such neuro-muscular disorders as carpal tunnel syndrome, sciatical and parethesia.
He received his Acupuncture training at Samra University and teaches courses in Oriental medicine in the Korean Language Section.
www.samra.edu /faculty/faculty1.html   (1450 words)

  
 In Search of the Rand Transcript
In July 1992, the Leningrad State University records were searched by the director of the archive administration and the vice director of the department dealing with the exchange of documents.
After all, I had offered Lossky as a symbol of a profoundly dialectical tradition in Russian scholarship, and I had insisted that virtually all the professors in the Leningrad history and philosophy departments of the period were of the same tradition.
In essence, I declared, dialectics--with its contextual analysis of dynamic structured wholes--was in the intellectual air, and Rand had breathed its insights, absorbing its organic methodological techniques, even as she rejected the entire mystic, collectivist, and statist substance to which these were wedded.
www.nyu.edu /projects/sciabarra/essays/randt1.htm   (3136 words)

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