naucnyj sotrudnik i procee

Paul B. Gallagher paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Tue Jul 22 16:35:56 UTC 2003


Edward M Dumanis wrote:

> These terms are just the names of the titles and/or positions in
> research jobs with the first one used rather general for all of them.
> To make the list complete, you should add also consider mladshij
> nauchnyj sotrudnik and glavnyj nauchnyj sotrudnik.
>
> The terms would correspond to the following hierarchy:
> mladshij nauchnyj sotrudnik is Junior (Research) Investigator,
> starshij naucnyj sotrudnik is Senior (Research) Investigator,
> vedushchij naucnyj sotrudnik is Lead (Research) Investigator,
> glavnyj nauchnyj sotrudnik is Principal (Research) Investigator.
>
> Just nauchnyj sotrudnik is Researcher.

I would also note that the U.S. Govt. seems to favor forms with
"research associate," thus "Jr./Sr. Res. Assoc.," etc. Rightly or
wrongly, it seems to be a common translation.

I must say I do like P.I. for glavnyy n.s.

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Paul B. Gallagher
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