The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has awarded the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa to the Italian nuclear physicist Prof. Dr. Giacomo de Angelis at an official ceremony at the Academy today. The title is awarded by the Governing Council of BAS for the outstanding services of Prof. Dr. Giacomo de Angelis to the development of nuclear physics in Bulgaria. The award was presented by the President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy, in the presence of H.E. Giuseppina Zarra, Ambassador of Italy, representatives of the academic community and guests. Prof. Giacomo de Angelis works at the National Laboratory in Legnaro of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics and is one of the most eminent European and world nuclear physicists [...]

The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy, awarded today a diploma for associate member of the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members to Prof. Dimitar Sasselov. Prof. Sasselov is among the most distinguished scientists in the field of astrophysics, said Prof. Revalski and recalled the decision of the AACM to award a special status to Bulgarian researchers working abroad. Bulgarian scientists or artists who work and live permanently outside Bulgaria are elected associate members of the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members of BAS. Prof. Sasselov presented his latest scientific discovery related to the origin of life on Earth with the presentation "Origin of mirror symmetry in the molecules of life". His research interests include the atmospheres and interiors of stars [...]

The book is published on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and the People's Republic of China. The book has been translated at the request of the Beijing Foreign Studies University which trains Bulgarian-speaking specialists for China. Especially in this edition, Acad. Ilchev added materials on the history of the development of Bulgarian-Chinese diplomatic, political and economic relations. More than 60 years have passed since the last Chinese translation of the history of Bulgaria, which was written in the not-so-distant 1963 and was the work of academicians D. Kossev, Ch. Christow and D. Angelov. With the monograph, Ivan Ilchev continues his attempts to present Bulgarian history to foreign readers but not with direct translations, as is usually [...]

A memorial prayer for the founders of the Bulgarian Learned Society (BLS), the donors of the Ascension of Christ Church, the clergy and Hristo Botev was celebrated in Braila, Romania, during the second day of the official visit of the delegation of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences led by the President, Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of BAS. The prayer (said in Romanian and Bulgarian) was led by His Eminence Archbishop Cassian of the Lower Danube, in communion with Archpriest Kiril Sinev (representative of the Bulgarian Patriarchate in Bucharest, Romania). "The Bulgarian Learned Society, which later became the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), is undoubtedly the most significant contribution to the Bulgarian National Revival in the field of the spiritual sphere," said the President of BAS, [...]