The film tells about the seamy side of scientists' work, about how difficult it is to make important scientific discoveries, what lies behind awards and honors, and how important it is to make an informed decision when choosing a profession.
Cartoon: formulas against the background of equipment.
Launch of a space rocket.
Scientists at telescopes.
Working with a robotic manipulator.
Specialists at the control panel.
Surgeons during an operation.
Communication equipment.
Alternation: famous Soviet scientists, articles, photographs.
Applicants to the history department of Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov.
Alternation: M.I. Artamonov talks to young people, museum exhibits, archaeological excavations.
Information on the number of places on the course.
Statistics.
Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Students of the chemistry department.
Photographs. N.A. Plate works with graduate students.
Graduate student Zh.
Khalikov conducts laboratory research for his dissertation.
Physicists work under the supervision of N.B. Delone.
Zh.
Khalikov takes notes and draws a graph.
Artamonov M.I. - Doctor of Historical Sciences
professor of archeology
teacher
Director of the State Hermitage Museum. N.A. Plate -- Doctor of Chemical Sciences
professor
Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Delone N.B. -- Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
teacher. Kargin V.A. -- scientific and public figure
Doctor of Chemical Sciences
Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Hero of Socialist Labor. Basov N.G. -- Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1964
twice Hero of Socialist Labor
Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
Leningrad Moscow
Summer Autumn
N.A.Plate and Zh.
Khalikov.
Zh.
Khalikov is working on his dissertation.
Foreign scientific literature.
Zh.
Khalikov continues his research.
Light in the window of a house.
A postgraduate student reads information on a stand.
Excerpts from scientific papers.
Zh.
Khalikov.
Photographs and opinions of scientists.
Photograph of an applicant.
Underlined lines on a page.
Articles and photographs. N.B.Delone with colleagues in the laboratory.
Plate N.A. Delone N.B.
Moscow
Autumn