In 2010 the nuclear science community will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sergey Nikolaevich Vernov (1910-1982), one of the founders and former directors of the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Academician S.N. Vernov was a prominent Russian scientist тАУ one of the worldтАЩs pioneers in cosmic ray studies. He laid the groundwork of cosmic ray science and accompanying research in elementary particle physics, space plasma phenomena, astro- and geophysics and was the founder of the space exploration with satellites.
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