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TO THE
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES In
Memory of Academician V. I. Goldanskii On behalf of the entire community of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, some 3,000 scientists and academics from around the world, we write to pay tribute to Academician Vitalii Goldanskii, a valued and honored colleague and friend of Pugwash for 25 years. Vitalii participated in his first Pugwash meeting in 1977 in Munich, Germany, possibly little realizing that this would lead to attendance at over 30 Pugwash conferences and workshops through the year 2000, to co-chairmanship of the Russian Pugwash Committee, and to membership on the Pugwash Council. Whether during the Cold War tensions of the 1980s or the optimism of the 1990s, Vitalii Goldanskii’s breadth and stature as a scientist and a seeker of political reconciliation were an inspiration to all who knew him in Pugwash. In this, he continued the honored tradition of Russian Pugwash extending from Academicians Topchiev and Millionshchikov to Artsimovitch and Sakharov.The world will need many Vitalii Goldanskiis in the years ahead. Those of us in Pugwash who worked with, and greatly enjoyed the company of, Vitalii and his wife Ludmilla, will forever miss him.
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