A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), and joint meeting of the Academic Councils of FIAN, JINR, INR, and the Scientific Council on elementary particle accelerators, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler, was held on 5 March 2007 at the conference hall of P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS. The following reports were presented at the session:
1. Bolotovskii B M, Lebedev A N (P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Academician V I Veksler”;
2. Dolbilkin B S, Ratner B S (Institute of Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow) “V I Veksler and the development of nuclear physics in the Soviet Union”;
3. Nikitin V A (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region) “Synchrophasotron studies”;
4. Kovalenko A D (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region) “From synchrophasotron to Nuclotron”.
An abridged version of the reports is given below.