The meeting of 25 laureates of the Nobel prize will be held in St. Petersburg

For the first time in the history of the scientific prizes, the 25 laureates of the Nobel prize will gather in the northern capital, within the framework of the celebration of its anniversary on the special meetings for laureates "Science and the progress of the mankind" from 16 through 22 of June, 2003. The majority of these scientists have never visited Russia before. According to Jores Alferov, the Nobel laureate and Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, "the event schedule is such, because the scientific meetings are better held in the quiet atmosphere, after the main celebration events have passed". Jores Alferov, who is one of the main initiators of this meting, notes: "roughly half of the participants are physicists, we already have the abstracts from 15 of the Nobel laureates – some of the topics will be of interest to the general public".

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