Spin noise spectroscopy (state prize of the russian federation in science and technology for 2020)

Editorial office of the journal “Optics and Spectroscopy” congratulates Evgeny Borisovich Aleksandrov, long-term Editor-in-Chief of the journal, and Valery Sergeevich Zapasskii, member of the editorial board of the journal, on being awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology for 2020 for the creation and development of a new scientific direction - spin noise spectroscopy. A brief summary of the essence of the new scientific direction is given.