Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Museum of History of Science and Technology of JINR

The History of Discoveries - the Authors speak

The museum holds a regular historical and scientific seminar within which a series of lectures "The History of Discoveries - the Authors speak" and "Personalities of the scientific Dubna" are organized. These series of lectures are designed to personalize the history and comprehend contribution of the JINR in the development of world science. What distinguishes the usual lecture about the discovery of the authors from a story of these discoveries? At some point, the lecturers put aside the fact that you can read in the textbooks, and start to talk about their experiences in person.

Currently, work is underway to create memorial rooms directly in JINR laboratories where outstanding scientists worked. In particular, D.Blokhintsev's and M.Mescheryakov's archives are systematized.

The "History of discoveries - the Authors speak" was opened in 2007, in order to collect the history of Dubna discoveries, narrated by the authors.

About the history of discovery of transuranium elements
	March 2013. Speaker: one of the authors of the discovery, Professor Ivo Zvara. He made a significant contribution to the development of theoretical foundations of the method of chemical identification and properties of various elements of Mendeleev periodic table, radiochemistry gaseous compounds, theory and practice of thermochromatography and other fast methods of separation elements. Photos from the seminar are in the section "Photogallery".
About the history of the discovery of helium-8 in 1965 in Dubna
	November 2012. Speaker: One of the authors of the discovery S.Bunyatov.
About the history of the study of neutrino
	May 2012. Speaker: One of the authors of the discovery Professor S.Bilenky. He worked for many years with the eminent physicist B.Pontekorvo. The participants of the seminar received first-hand information about how Bruno worked, about the genesis of his ideas and the history of "neutrino physics". He told about this amazing particle (neutrino) and its mysteries; about scientists, engaged in the search for answers to questions that arise in connection with the study of the properties of neutrinos; about his colleague and teacher B.Pontekorvo.
About the history of the study of delayed fission of atom nucleus
	March 2012. Speaker: One of the authors of the discovery N.Skobelev.
About the history of the world's first pulse reactor IBR
	October 2010. Speaker: Dr.Sc.(Phys.-Math.) E.Shabalin. He is well-known engineer, one of the founders of high-current pulsed research reactor IBR-2. He told the audience about the history of the first unique reactor and accompanied the story with a very interesting computer presentation. At the end of the seminar, participants discussed the history of IBR.
About the history of the discovery of the double charge of p-mezons
	2009. Speaker: one of the authors of the discovery Y.Batusov Through numerous experiments on the synchrocyclotron previously unknown turning of positive p-mezon in the negative was discovered. Photos from the seminar are in the section "Photogallery".
About the history of the discovery of spontaneously fissioning isomer and proton activity
	May 30, 2007. Speaker: one of the authors of the discovery V.Karnauhov. A prominent physicist, Professor, Chief Researcher, USSR State Prize winner told about the the discovery of proton radioactivity.
About the history of the first observation of retention of ultra-cold neutrons in a limited volume
	March 2007. Speaker: one of the authors of the discovery A.Strelkov.
About the history of the study of diffraction particle accelerators by thin internal target
	April 2007. Speaker: one of the authors of the discovery V.Nikitin. Together with colleagues, he has developed and introduced a fundamentally new method for investigating the scattering of high energy protons on protons at small angles and hydrogen jet target that yielded outstanding scientific results.