Safety rope for the first spacewalker, the technique of treating various materials with electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light, use of e-beams for pest protection of grain storages and many other innovative techniques and technologies came into being several decades ago with the creation of industrial accelerators developed by young researcher Evgeny Abramyan – one of the founders of the legendary Akademgorodok – a scientific center located in the neighborhood of Novosibirsk. Abramyan's accelerator was the progenitor of the hundreds of industrial accelerators which are currently operated in Russia and beyond. Nowadays, particle accelerators are widespread and represents a whole sector of industry.
At the same time, Abramyan and his team created a generator of radiation which output was comparable to that of a nuclear explosion. Again, apparatuses of same design have been used to our day in research labs to study both useful and harmful effects of radiation.
Research teams from the Abramyan's Siberian lab and later from his Moscow-based lab performed experiments in using e-beams for tunnel driving, energy transmittal to large distances and other purposes. The elegant designs of accelerators and ultrahigh voltage lamps based on the invented technology were patented in many countries. The books by Evgeny Abramyan featuring the innovative field of science were published in the Soviet Union and in the United States and have become table-top books recognized in many research centers worldwide. Some of the Abramyan's experiments were continued at the International Center for Physics in Switzerland and laid the basis for creating one of the principal modules of the world's largest particle accelerator.
At the same time, Evgeny Abramyan founded a faculty of applied physics in Novosibirsk; hundreds of its graduates currently lead research teams in various countries on various continents throughout the world.
The imaginative and daring approach to the most challenging problems is being successfully employed by Professor Abramyan today, though he has turned his focus to the problems faced by the human civilization. For ten years now he has been studying the human civilization's evolution, trying to understand where we are going to and to find ways to preserve our civilization and to help us pull through the crises that have been ripening over the last few decades. The ultimate goal is to find a solution for the humanity's sustainable development. Products of these efforts by Evgeny Abramyan are a number of articles and essays and several books devoted to the new field of research – globalistics.
