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The IAS was founded togehter with the International Council of Scientific Development (ICSD) in 1980 by initiative of Linus Pauling, Sir John Kendrew , Lord Alexander Todd , Andrej Sacharow , Konrad Lorenz und Ilya Prigogine (President of the IAS) and many other well known scientists of contemporaneity. Linus Karl Pauling was the Honorary President of IAS till the end of his life.
The main aim of IAS is unification of efforts of scientists from different countries for solving of actual global problems of contemporaneity of humanity and global sustainability.
IAS unites 800 outstanding scientists and philosophers, politicians and public figures of the world. 120 of them are winners of the Nobel Prize.
The ICSD-Network contains more than 100 national academies of sciences, universities and reasearch centers. Many national sections of the Academy were founded and activate: German, Russian, Azerbaijan, French, Indian, Japanese, East European, etc.
International Academy of Science. Founding Report. Munich 1990