Examples, lllustralnt the differentiation of professions of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel.· are clear.Jy expressed In the nomenclature of technical sclneces: In Instrument engineering. wherein the professions differentiated bY the types of Instruments; In management, automatics and computer engineering. and some others. Optics and sol ld-state physics• organic chemistry and biophysics, computer engineering and ethnography, and many other professions stated In the nomenclature represent today whole complexes of scientific directions with hundreds of scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers specializing In each. Radlcalorecomblnatlon luminescence, which Is a direction of physics, has about 600 scientific workers In the USSR and, to our mind, will form In the ~ar future Into a separate profession. 392. ,I 'C Tab,. 1 Number of Scientific Workers 1950 Total number of scientific workers (Including scienti­ fic-pedagogical personnel at higher educational· Insti- tutions) 162.5 Including those with scientifiC degrees of: Doctor of sci• ences Candidate of sciences 8.3 45.5 Of the total number of scientific workers a scientific degree of: Academlclan,corr­ esponding mrmber• professor* 8.9 Assistant prof­ essor Senior scienti-21.8 fic worker 11.4 Junior scienti­fic worker and assistant 19.6 (In thou sands) 1965 1970 1975 1980 1981 1982 664.6 927.7 1223.4 1373.3 1411.2 1431 14.8 23.6 32.3 37.7 38.7 39.7 134.4 224.5 326.8 396.2 409.7 423 12.5 18. 1 22.9 27.4 28. 1 28. 7 48.6 68.6 87.9 110.7 115.7 121.3 28.7 39.0 53.3 66.0 68.6 70.9 48.9 48.8 45.0 41.1 40.2 40.6 * Including 2.6 thousand academicians, members of the USSR g Academy of Sciences and corresponding members. co ct 26-2 39l table ·I Distribution of Branches of Science by ~r of Scientific PerSODDel and Rates of Its Crewth iA J!JSC)-J !J74 Branch of Scieace I&Dk. n .Number Chanp of l.aDk. by laak by late of 1950 1974 lfwlbu Cl"'VCb 'lecbaical I 0 2 Keclical 2 4 -a 17 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the development of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel, including the number of workers, their qualifications, and the distribution of scientific branches. The focus is on the growth and specialization of scientific fields, indicating a strong connection to the scientific community. The tables provided also suggest a significant increase in the number of scientific workers over time.

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