International Academy of Science
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- The US-based International Academy of Science (Independence, Missouri) was established to promote Science and Science education.
The International Academy of Science (IAS) is the renowned inter- and transnational academy of science.
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Foundation
The IAS was founded together with the International Council of Scientific Development (ICSD) in 1980 by initiative of Linus Pauling, Sir John Kendrew, Lord Alexander Todd, Andrej Sacharow, Konrad Lorenz and Ilya Prigogine (President of the IAS) and many other well known scientists of contemporaneity. Linus Karl Pauling was the Honorary President of IAS till the end of his life.
Aims
The main aim of IAS is unification of efforts of scientists from different countries for solving of actual global problems of contemporaneity of humanity and global sustainability.
Members and Network
IAS unites over 1000 outstanding scientists and philosophers, politicians and public figures of the world. Among them there are 120 Nobel Prize laureates and more than 50 former and acting ministers and head of states.
The ICSD-Network contains more than 80 national academies of sciences, and more than 60 universities and research centers.
Many national sections of the Academy were founded and active: German, Russian, Azerbaijan, French, Indian, Japanese, East European, etc.
The Russian Section has 380 full members and three departments.
Source
- International Academy of Science. Founding Report. Munich 1990
- International Academy of Science. Science without Borders. Transactions of the International Academy of Science. Baku - Innsbruck 2004