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At the Georgian National Academy of
Sciences the General Meeting of the Georgian National
Academy of Sciences, which met in session on 11 December
2009, discussed the questions of presenting eminent
scientists/scholars with prizes, diplomas and awards, the
election of Foreign Members of the Georgian National Academy
of Sciences and of the Poet-Academician of the Georgian
National Academy of Sciences.
Before the General Meeting started, Mr.
Gabor Shagy, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of
the Hungarian Republic to Georgia, handed to Academician
Thomas Gamkrelidze, President of the Georgian National
Academy of Sciences, the Diploma of Honorary Member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and he read the letter sent
to Acad. Thomas Gamkrelidze by the President of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He congratulated the
outstanding Georgian scholar with another great recognition,
wishing him further successes in his creative work. In his
speech in response, Academician Th. Gamkrelidze asked the
Ambassador to convey his thanks to the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences for such high appreciation of his scholarly
activity:
The General Meeting considered the
question on the agenda of electing the Foreign Members of
the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. Academician Thomas Gamkrelidze described
the scientific and organizational activity of
Professor
Felix Unger (Austria), noting the contribution made by him
to the development of cardiac surgery. He called on the
Meeting to elect Professor Felix Unger a Foreign Member of
the Georgian National Academy of Sciences.
Academician Thomas Gamkrelidze described
the second candidate for Foreign Membership of the Academy –
Professor Winfried Blum (Austria). He noted that Professor
Blum’s sphere of scientific interests involved the chemistry
of soils and that part of mineralogy which dealt with
questions of the geography, genesis and classification of
soils. Professor Winfried Blum is a Member of soil science
societies of many advanced countries. Academician Thomas Gamkrelidze called on the Meeting to support the election of
Winfried Blum a Foreign Member of the Academy.
Taking into account the application of the
Academic council of the Academy, the General Meeting of the
Georgian National Academy of Sciences unanimously elected,
by open ballot, Professor Felix Unger and
Professor Winfried
Blum Foreign Members of the Georgian National Academy of
Sciences
(s. the Diplomas)
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On the election of Foreign Members of the
Georgian National Academy of Sciences
General Meeting of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences
Decision № 2
29 July, 2010
The general Meeting of the Georgian National Academy of
Sciences decides:
The following persons, elected by open ballot, be considered
as Foreign Members of the Academy:
1. Isaac Elishakoff – Professor of Atlanta University, USA
(Applied Mechanics) (Department of Mechanics,
Machine-Building and Control Processes);
2. Khoshbakht Bagi Oghli Yusifzade Academician of the
Azerbaijan National Academy, who discovered and studied new
deposits of oil and gas in the Republic of Azerbaijan,
namely on the Caspian Sea shelf (Department of Earth
Sciences);
3. Andrew Kropinski – Professor of Microbiology and
Immunology of Ontario University, Canada, and Molecular and
Cell Biology of the University of Guelph, Director of the
Canadian Public Agency Programme of Health (Department of
Biological Sciences);
4. Janail Aliev – Academician of the Azerbaijan National and
Russian Federation Academies of Medical Sciences, who
founded and at present directs the scientific school of
Oncology (Department of Medicine);
5. Stephen Jones – Professor of Mount Holyoke Colledge, USA,
an eminent US political scientist and sociologist, with
knowledge of the Georgian language, and researcher into
Georgian history (Department of Social Sciences);
6. Gadji Gamzatov – Daghestanian literary critic, Doctor of
Philological Sciences, Professor, Full Member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Presidium of the
Scientific Centre of Daghestan. The main line of his
scholarly activity: Study of the varied literature of
Daghestan and the North Caucasus, research into the
national-cultural and folkloristic heritage (Department of
Language, Literature and Art).
President of the Georgian National
Academy of Sciences
Academician Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
Academician-Secretary of the Georgian
National Academy of Sciences
Academician O.Natishvili
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On the election of Foreign Members of the
Georgian National Academy of Sciences
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