Advances in Synthesis and Complexing Conference
“I realized that I wanted to become a scientist when I was 16. Even then I loved to solve difficult problems. And I dreamed of becoming a mathematician. But at 18, I realized that in order to become a great mathematician, you have to be a genius, even a monster. And I was not a monster in mathematics, while around were those who were clearly better than me. It’s good that all those years I never stopped studying chemistry - I had a small laboratory in my house. I just shifted the focus to other formulas”, - Nobel laureate Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage told the RUDN students.
At the same time, Professor at the age of 3 to 18 changed school 15 times due to frequent family relocations. He lived in Africa, America and Europe having to miss a lot of classes, catch up on the material on his own and also learn to communicate with different people. Among the necessary skills of a modern successful scientist, Professor Sauvage called the ability to explain to ordinary people the results of his research (“talking to general public”), speak English and be ready for frequent trips. It is also important to be able to work in a team and be able to share success with the team. Professor Sauvage - about success: “There is no single formula for how to become a famous scientist. We must live by science and not think about fame, we must find a reason to be surprised. And this helps others. If someone says: “Wow! What are you doing? ”- listen, explain, and see for yourself that you are doing something important,” – said Professor Sauvage.
“Sometimes they told me that my name was on the list of candidates for the Nobel Prize. And every time I smiled, not believing that someday this will happen. Often the chemistry prize went to biochemists or those involved in physical chemistry and extremely rarely to those who, like me, worked in the field of pure chemistry. At the same time, they often gave preference to those whose discoveries were of an applied nature, and although molecular machines have application, they really do, but I understand that it is limited. But despite my disbelief and despite the background of the laureates, everything worked out. And I am convinced that it is impossible to say that applied research is more important than fundamental research, or vice versa. The main thing is novelty.”
After receiving the Nobel Prize, the life of Professor Sauvage changed - there is more attention from the press and colleagues, you have to travel even more, and you have less time to work with graduate students. The Nobel laureate advises not to ignore one’s personal life.
Professor Sauvage plays ping-pong, communicates with his graduates in person and on the Internet and reads a lot. It helps to find inspiration and answer people's questions. Favorite discovery? Periodic Table, because it is ingenious and useful. Favorite scientist? Antoine Lavoisier, because he introduced the fundamentals of quantitative analysis to chemistry. What book do you recommend reading? “Notre Dame de Paris” by Victor Hugo, because one cannot stand aside from the tragedy at the World Cultural Heritage Site. The meeting of Nobel laureate Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage with students was held at RUDN conference “Advances in Synthesis and Complexing”, where more than 50 leading chemists from 15 countries present their answers to topical issues of organic, inorganic, medical, physical and colloidal chemistry. The geography of the participants is impressive: Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, Iran, Spain, Italy, Canada, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, USA, France and Japan
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It would be shortsighted to underestimate the outcomes of the First world war. The mistakes made in this war, which were not taken into consideration, largely determined the further course of history of the 20th century. The radical restructuring of the world order did not solve all the accumulated problems. Over the past hundred years, researchers have been rethinking the role of the first world war: one of the key projects, which brought together 28 participants from 11 countries, was completed in the Romanian city of Alba Iulia at the conference “International Treaties of the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)”. According to its results, a collective monograph was published in the very heart of the victorious Entente, at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, entitled “The Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) and Its Aftermath. Settlements, Problems and Perceptions”.
The First online Science Festival -2020 October 9, 17, Science Festival took place at RUDN University. The scientific festival which is carried out within the framework of the All-Russian Festival of Science
Anastasia Daraseliya, RUDN postgraduate student of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Communications Technology, participated in the The IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications was held in London (UK) from August 31 to September 3, 2020. The conference was held online on Whova platform together with Zoom.
It would be shortsighted to underestimate the outcomes of the First world war. The mistakes made in this war, which were not taken into consideration, largely determined the further course of history of the 20th century. The radical restructuring of the world order did not solve all the accumulated problems. Over the past hundred years, researchers have been rethinking the role of the first world war: one of the key projects, which brought together 28 participants from 11 countries, was completed in the Romanian city of Alba Iulia at the conference “International Treaties of the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)”. According to its results, a collective monograph was published in the very heart of the victorious Entente, at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, entitled “The Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) and Its Aftermath. Settlements, Problems and Perceptions”.