Interview with Roald Sagdeev

RASA History Project:

The Russian-American Science Association (RASA) is going global. The more important it becomes to focus on the history of our community. Our historical account is self-critical but forward-looking. In 2025, RASA is launching a project about its history, its relationships with colleagues worldwide, and its interactions with society as a whole, aiming to better understand how to move forward.

We start this project by interviewing the outstanding American-Soviet physicist Roald Sagdeev, who was the director of the Institute for Space Research at the USSR Academy of Sciences during the late Soviet era. He has been living and working in the United States for over 30 years. Throughout these years, he has greatly contributed to fostering collaboration between American and Russian scientists.