I. M. Kerzhner died

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Juglans, 30.05.2008 5:02

There are no words...

Tentator-please accept my sincere condolences. And continue his work.

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01.06.2008 6:55, Juglans

Here is what one of ZIN's employees wrote about him:
"... the world has lost a rare person and has become impoverished by one rare phenomenon among all mankind... I remember all the extraordinary things that this man did, for example, drawing out some articles out of hopelessness, sitting in the library for days - that is, doing what the author himself was obliged to do...
I. M. was driven only by one thing - to bring the mediocre
material presented to the right level... And the poor authors did not even understand what this humble man had done for them, and only attributed to themselves the success of what they had done...".

And here's another funny verse I found:

Over the "Record" - om froze old man stooped,
Then Slava Kerzhner-priest nomenclature.
All his life, with a series of sleepless nights
, He was in love with bedbugs without eyes.

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17.01.2009 17:34, Juglans

I remember this story. I had a nomenclature dispute with an American (who considered himself a great expert on nomenclature and later became the head of the American Association for Zoological Nomenclature) - he considered the genus I highlighted invalid, and urged his colleagues to ignore it. And I forwarded his letter to Kerzhner - I. M. answered the two of us in English on two pages of text in such detail that the American had nothing to object to (although he still ignores rod-out of stubbornness).
Then I remember one of my colleagues saying that Kerzhner is not the same level of knowledge of nomenclature, that someone F. B. from Paris (who is considered one of the best specialists in nomenclature in the world) is better. I immediately found a nomenclature error in F. B.-the Muscovites first made fun of me, but after Kerzhner's explanations, they became quiet. For me, Kerzhner was and remains the No. 1 specialist in the world and a person of an irrevocably bygone era. Recently, ZIN lost another outstanding ichthyologist, Anatoly Petrovich Andriyashev (1910-2009).

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04.06.2009 4:13, Juglans

On 0.1 can and will take, but where to get these 0.9?! In our institute, out of 150 NS, only 30-40 work full-time, the rest just from 0.9 to 0.1.
And in order to arrange a graduate student who has defended himself, you need to take a rate from the laboratory fund (0.5, 0.3, etc.), which means taking this share from someone... And you talk...

I wrote it: 0.9 on an extra-budgetary basis. In the BPI, of course, they do not go for this.

Musolin
is not. Almost all grants go extra-budgetary (including the Russian Foundation for Basic Research - this is so!), and they have a 15% overhead. So count how many invoices from a grant of 1 million (there are more than one of these in ZINA). An extra-budget is a whole network of revenues, all weighty. Moreover, you can spend it on anything - inappropriate use does not apply here. But it is spent in different institutions in different ways. I know only a few institutes in the Russian Academy of Sciences that spend it on salaries for young people.