ABOUT  THE  AUTHORS

by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov
Scientific American, March 1990, P.110

THOMAS V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. IVANOV are the authors of The Indo-European Language and the Indo-Europeans, a two-volume work published in Russian in 1984; an English version is published by Mouton de Gruyter. Gamkrelidze directs the Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies in Tbilisi and is a professor of linguistics at Tbilisi State University. Ivanov is professor of linguistics and chair of the department of Slavic languages at the Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies in Moscow. The authors wish to thank Gerard Piel, chairman emeritus of Scientific American, for helping to prepare this article for publication.