Aleksandr Y. Rumyantsev

Born in 1945 In 1969 graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.
C 1969. work in the RRC "Kurchatov Institute" - an engineer.
1973 - junior researcher.
Since 1982, Mr.. - Senior Researcher.
Since 1989. - Head of the Division of Solid State Physics.
Since 1993, Mr.. - Director of the Center for Scientific Development.
In 1994 he headed the Research Center "Kurchatov Institute".
Since 1997, Mr.. - Corresponding Member of RAS (specialty "Physics").
Since 2000. - Academician of Russia Academy of Sciences, professor of the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute.
Physicist experimenter. The main scientific interests are connected with the study of structure and dynamics of the crystal lattice of solids by methods of neutron scattering.
Laureate Gasudarstvennoy Prize of the USSR 1986.
Board Member of the Nuclear Society of Russia.
He is the author of more than 70 scientific articles and reports.
28 March 2001 was appointed Minister of Russia for Atomic Energy.