Education
National Research Nuclear University.
Diplomat physicist nuclear scientist
National Research Nuclear University.
Since graduating Moscow Engineering Physics Institute 1969, worked in Kurchatov Institute researching nuclear physics. In 1994 was appointed as the director of the Kurchatov Institute. In 2001 was appointed as the Minister of the Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, in the cabinet of the Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.
During his tenure the Megatons to Megawatts agreement was renegotiated in 2002.
Following the dismissal of the whole cabinet in February 2004 by the President Putin, the Ministry was reorganized into a Federal Agency on Atomic Energy where Alexander Rumyantsev was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer. He stepped down from this post in November 2005 during the international scandal involving his predecessor as a Minister, Yevgeny Adamov. In preparation for his next job Alexander Rumyantsev graduated the Higher Diplomatic Courses of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Master of Fine Arts in 2006, and was posted as the Russian ambassador to the Republic of Finland.
Later he was awarded the diplomatic rank of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in April 2008. Currently is the Dean of the Diplomatic corps in Finland.
1986 - Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize for the cycle of works on "New methods of research in the field of solid-state physics based on scattering the neutrons in stationary nuclear reactors".
Russian Academy of Sciences]
In 1996 was elected as the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and since 2000 is the academician.