Georgia

As one of the Soviet republics, Georgia became part of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research on the day the organization was created, 26 March 1956. The same year A. N. Tavkhelidze, a future Academician, president of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences and a person who laid the foundation for active participation of Georgian scientists in JINR activities, was invited by N. N. Bogoliubov to take a position of a researcher in the JINR Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. Over the years of cooperation, Georgian scientists have developed and carried out joint experiments at the basic facilities of the JINR laboratories and theoretical projects in the field of nuclear physics and particle physics.

Georgia has been a JINR Member State as a sovereign republic since 1992. The first plenipotentiary of the Georgian government in JINR was Academician N. S. Amaglobeli, experimental physicist who began his scientific career as a postgraduate student in DLNP JINR. Nowadays Georgian scientists are working at basic JINR facilities and actively participating in international JINR projects.