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Anikin V. M. Albert Einstein and Pitirim Sorokin: history of dissertation defences. Izvestiya VUZ. Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, 2011, vol. 19, iss. 3, pp. 62-78. DOI: 10.18500/0869-6632-2011-19-3-62-78

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History of Nonlinear Dynamics. Personalia
Article type: 
Personalia
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001.8(031)
DOI: 
10.18500/0869-6632-2011-19-3-62-78

Albert Einstein and Pitirim Sorokin: history of dissertation defences

Autors: 
Anikin Valerij Mihajlovich, Saratov State University
Abstract: 

The difference between procedures of receiving scientific degrees in Europe and Russia is demonstrated by means of comparison of thesis defences by Nobel laureate Albert Einstein (1876–1955) in Zurich University (1905) and outstanding Russian/American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968) in Peterburg University (1922).

Key words: 
thesis
receiving scientific degree
public defence
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Received: 
12.01.2011
Accepted: 
12.01.2011
Published: 
29.07.2011
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