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'''Vladimir V. Rubtsov''' (born December 10, 1948) is a Ukrainian researcher and philosopher of science who serves as Director of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena (RIAP) in Kharkov, Ukraine. He is known for his long-term study of the 1908 Tunguska explosion and for his work on the methodological and philosophical problems associated with the search for extraterrestrial civilizations. | '''Vladimir V. Rubtsov''' (born December 10, 1948) is a Ukrainian researcher and philosopher of science who serves as Director of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena (RIAP) in Kharkov, Ukraine. He is known for his long-term study of the 1908 Tunguska explosion and for his work on the methodological and philosophical problems associated with the search for extraterrestrial civilizations. | ||
==Education== | |||
* MSc, computer science, 1972 | |||
* PhD, philosophy of science, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1980 — thesis "Philosophical and Methodological Aspects of the Problem of Extraterrestrial Civilizations", reported to be the first dissertation of its kind in the former USSR | |||
* Studied at the National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute" | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Rubtsov was born in 1948 in Kharkov, then part of the Soviet Union and now in independent Ukraine. After graduating, he joined the laboratory of Dr. A. V. Zolotov in Kalinin (now Tver, Russia), where for three years he studied the problem of the Tunguska explosion. | |||
He resides in Kharkov, is married, and reads English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, and Polish. | |||
==Work== | ==Work== | ||
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Vladimir Rubtsov | |
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| Born | December 10, 1948 |
| Residence | Kharkov, Ukraine |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Alma mater | National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute"; Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the USSR |
| Known for | Research on the Tunguska event and extraterrestrial civilizations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Philosophy of science, Tunguska research, SETI |
| Institutions | Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena |
Vladimir V. Rubtsov (born December 10, 1948) is a Ukrainian researcher and philosopher of science who serves as Director of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena (RIAP) in Kharkov, Ukraine. He is known for his long-term study of the 1908 Tunguska explosion and for his work on the methodological and philosophical problems associated with the search for extraterrestrial civilizations.
Education
- MSc, computer science, 1972
- PhD, philosophy of science, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1980 — thesis "Philosophical and Methodological Aspects of the Problem of Extraterrestrial Civilizations", reported to be the first dissertation of its kind in the former USSR
- Studied at the National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute"
Biography
Rubtsov was born in 1948 in Kharkov, then part of the Soviet Union and now in independent Ukraine. After graduating, he joined the laboratory of Dr. A. V. Zolotov in Kalinin (now Tver, Russia), where for three years he studied the problem of the Tunguska explosion.
He resides in Kharkov, is married, and reads English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, and Polish.
Work
Rubtsov's professional fields are the methodology of interdisciplinary research, the sociology of science and technology, and general epistemology. He is Director of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena (RIAP) and editor of its newsletter, the RIAP Bulletin.
He has authored some 120 scientific and popular-science articles in the Soviet, post-Soviet, and foreign press, as well as two scientific monographs: The Problem of Extraterrestrial Civilizations (with A. D. Ursul) and UFOs and Modern Science (with Y. V. Platov). His English-language book The Tunguska Mystery (Springer/Copernicus, 2009; edited by Edward Ashpole) surveys the history and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and the present-day CIS.
Honors
Rubtsov is a full member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, an associate member of the Society for Scientific Exploration (USA), a member of the Expert Group on Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the SETI Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.