“Legacy” of Prof. B.P. Weinberg - science and mutual understanding underlie success

Abstract

The history of science knows many examples of brilliant works and ideas that were ahead of their time, the time of practical realization of which came many years later (as well as ideas forgotten or still waiting for their time). One of the brightest representatives of scientists whose works anticipated the future was Professor Boris Petrovich Veinberg (1871-1942) of the Tomsk Technological University. His encyclopedic knowledge and broad culture (his father, Pyotr Isaevich, was a famous poet and translator) allowed Boris Petrovich not only to understand the problem of climate change long before today's eco-activists, but also to propose a number of unique solutions, somehow related to minimizing the impact on the climate and to renewable energy. These include, for example, works on the justification of magnetically levitational transport technology “maglev”(a number of projects on this basis are currently being implemented in China and Japan), as well as works on solar energy.