One of the items on the agenda of the 16th Council session concerned an exchange of scientists between our European organization and the Soviet Centre of Dubna. Three Soviet scientists arrived at Meyrin on 18 July for a period of six months, during which time they will co-operate in various aspects of the exploitation of the particle accelerators and in theoretical studies.
Two of the physicists, Vladimir Meshcheryakov and Rostislav Ryndin, are from the Theoretical Physics Laboratory of Dubna. They have naturally been attached to CERN's Theoretical Study Division, where they will continue work begun in the USSR before their departure.
Meshcheryakov is the youngest: he was born on 20 September 1932 in Leningrad and graduated from Moscow University in 1953. He is married and since 1958 has been working at Dubna, where among other work he has been studying the "field of application of Mandelstam's representation".
Ryndin also comes from Leningrad, where he was born on 20 January 1920. He studied at the Leningrad State University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1952. He then entered the Dubna Nuclear Study Centre, where his latest work was on "Low-energy bremsstrahlung from high-energy electron-proton collisions". Ryndin is married and has one child.
Yuri Sherbakov, the third scientist, is an experimental physicist who has been attached to the Russian Centre of Dubna since 1953. At CERN he will take part in the exploitation of the 600 million electronvolt (600 MeV) synchrocyclotron. He was born at Valsk on the Volga in August 1925, and was a student at the Moscow Institute of Technology, studying physics under Professor Kosadev. He went to Dubna in 1953 and has been working there for five years on the 680 MeV synchrocyclotron.
• Taken from CERN Courier July 1960 p2.
Editor's note
An important part of CERN's mission is to encourage communication between scientists in different countries, helping to overcome political differences. These extracts show links during the Cold War with both the US and the USSR, in particular with the research organization at Dubna, as described also on p25.