Andrey Naumov, head of the LPI RAS, branch in Troitsk, head of the theoretical physics department named after Edward V. Shpolsky, corresponding member of the RAS, became one of the experts of the “Point of View” program on October 17, and together with G. Malinetsky, A. Mironov, and O. Smolin, they discussed the retrospective of the state of Russian science and the problems of modern funding for scientific schools and laboratories.

The main question of the program was the ownership of the scientific legacy of Alexey Ekimov – one of the newly minted Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots – by Russia and the Russian scientific community.

«He made his discovery in the Soviet Union, when he managed to create size-dependent quantum effects in colored glass. Alexey Ekimov received the State Prize of the USSR in 1976, and in the early 1990s he emigrated to the USA and now works at Nanocrystals Technology in New York.
Our media called Ekimov a Russian scientist, but this is not true. He is a Soviet scientist because it was in the USSR that he made the main discovery of his life, and then – an American. But not Russian. And his story is a vivid illustration of what Soviet science was and how the fate of Soviet scientists unfolded»