TOP INTERVIEWS Interview with Mr. Alexander YU. RUMYANTSEV Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy Moscow, April 29th 2002 Interview BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER RUMYANTSEV By the act of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on March 28, 2001, Mr. Alexander Rumyantsev was appointed the Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation. A. Rumyantsev was born on July 26, 1945 in the town of Kushka (Turkmenskaya Socialist Republic). From 1963 to 1969 he studied in Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics and specialised in the physics of solids. From 1969 to 2001 he worked in the Russian Scientific Centre "Kurchatovsky Institute" (the Insitute of Atomic Energy named after I.V. Kurchatov.) From 1994 worked as the Director of the Centre up to the date of his appointment as Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation. Rumyantsev is Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics (1988), Professor (1996) In 1986 he received the State Award of the USSR. In 1997 he was elected a correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (specialisation - physics), in 2000 - elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the department of General Physics and Astronomy (specialisation - physics). A. Rumyantsev is a prominent research scientist. The subject of his major work is the physics of solids through methods of neutron scattering. His works on phonon spectrums of metals, alloys and compounds by using the method of neutron scattering brought him fame worldwide. On this subject over 100 scientific articles have been published in Russian and foreign journals. In the recent years the major subject of Rumyantsev´s research work is the behaviour of high temperature superconductors gridwork. Note: WINNE cannot be held responsible for the content of unedited transcriptions.