Selection of Honorary and Founding Members (Acad.)
Wictor Danilov-Danilian was born 1938 in Moscow. He is the Director of the Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the 80-s he established and headed a Chair of Ecology at the Academy for National Economy of the USSR Council of Ministers. In 1977 through 1990 as Professor of the Moscow State University Faculty for Economics he combined scientific work with teaching practices. In December 1991 he became Minister for Environmental Protection of the Russian Federation. Starting from August 29, 1996 he rules the State Committee of Russian Federation for Environmental Protection.
Victor Ivanovich Danilov-Danilian has largely contributed in the development of economy, ecology. He is academician of the Russian Academy of Science, the Russian Academy for Natural Sciences and Ecological Academy, an scince 1989 acting member of the International Academy of Science. He is an author of 200 scientific publications including a number of school books, monographs.
Sir John Eccles, AC (1903-1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize together with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he rediscovered the principle of imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century) in the behavior of nidifugous birds. In 1958, Lorenz transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discoveries in individual and social behavior patterns" with two other important early ethologists, Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. In 1969, he became the first recipient of the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.
Karl Popper (1902-1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. Sir Karl is known for repudiating the classical observationalist / inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsification instead; for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge which he replaced with critical rationalism, "the first non justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy" and for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism which he took to make the flourishing of the "open society" possible.
Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was a German-born philosopher. He is best known for his influential work The Imperative of Responsibility (German 1979, English 1984). His work centers on social and ethical problems created by technology. Jonas insists that human survival depends on our efforts to care for our planet and its future. He formulated a new and distinctive supreme principle of morality: "Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life".
Wolfgang Stegmüller (1923-1991) was a German-Austrian Philosopher with important contributions in philosophy of science and in analytic philosophy.
Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) Dutch economist, was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security
Desmond Tutu (born 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected and ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the Magubela prize for liberty in 1986. He is committed to stopping global AIDS and has served as the honorary chairman for the Global AIDS Alliance. In February 2007 he was awarded Gandhi Peace Prize by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, president of India.
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