EXCURSION OVER THE "STATE" OF THE INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Only an outsider can fully app-reciate the uniqueness and peculiarity of the institute. As usual, great things are better seen only at a great distance. However, the point here is not the scales, although with its staff of three thousand employees, the institute today is indeed the largest research institution in the country - during the difficult years of social and economic disruptions, it lost only 10 % of the staff it had before perestroika. By the end of the 1980s, there were a few tens of research institutes of the same or larger size - and where are they now?

The peculiarity of the institute shows up even in its name. The Institute of Nuclear Physics is engaged primarily in the so-called high-energy physics rather than nuclear physics. Knowing people say that the legendary father-founder of INP G. I. Budker "calqued" the name of the Alma Mater, the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, to ensure a relatively comfortable life for his extremely peaceful child. Recall - these were the 1950s…

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