Gennady Mikhailovich Dobrov (9 March 1929, Bakhmut (Donetsk region) - 4 January 1989, Kyiv) - one of the founders of science studies in the Soviet Union, founder of the Ukrainian science studies school, founder of the G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the NAS of Ukraine, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1988). Corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science (Paris, 1965). Member of the International Academy of Humanities and Natural Sciences (1972). Doctor of Economic Sciences (1968), Candidate of Technical Sciences (1953), Professor (1970).
Author of about 600 scientific works, including 10 individual monographs, of which "Science about Science" has been reprinted in 17 countries. In 1999, his manuscript "Caputology, or Applied System Analysis of Failures" was also published - a deep study on management, written in a humorous form.
Developed the theory of scientific and technical potential and methods of its measurement, the theory and practice of scientific and technical forecasting, one of the first in the USSR to begin work on scientometrics.
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