by Marina MALYGINA, journalist The first scientists, who were awarded the UNESCO medal For Contribution to the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies, were the Nobel laureate of 2000 Academician Zhores Alferov, RAS Vice-President, and Chunli Bai, Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of the Molecular Nanostructure Chemistry Laboratory in Beijing. The ceremony was held in November 2010 at the Paris headquarters of the international organization. Academician Zhores Alferov, who was awarded the UNESCO medal and Diploma For Contribution to the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies. стр. 34 Collection and systematization of data on a knotty, complex and highly urgent problem of preservation of terrestrial civilization are closely connected with UNESCO activities. The results of performed works were presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) in 2002--there was presented the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, a unique electronic library containing about 600 volumes, 800 pages each (presented in a printed form). The encyclopedia was compiled by more than 7,000 well-known experts from 110 countries. This work--innovative both in form and in content-includes all-round reviews and detailed materials describing present-day state of mathematical, physical, energy, economic, agricultural, social, humanitarian and other sciences, as well as problems of the environment, conservation of the Earth, atmosphere, prospects of regional and cultural development. The encyclopedia was designed as a living organism to be constantly supplemented with the development of mankind. And the rapid evolution of nanotechnologies in early 21st century "resulted" in creation of a separate section in it, which summed up information on the science and technology of creation, manufacture and sale of materials, functional structures and devices on atomic, molecular a ... Читать далее