Vasily Nalimov

Vasiliy Vasilievich Nalimov (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Нали́мов; 4 November 1910, Moscow – 19 January 1997) was a Russian philosopher and humanist and wrote on Transpersonal Psychology.

Thompson (1993) summarizes Nalimov as: "...philosopher, educator, devoted husband, mathematician, dissident, writer, and (although he may deny it) visionary".

Nalimov has a reputation as a founder of the area of Scientometrics, as he coined the Russian term "Naukometriya" in 1969, together with Mulchenko.

That idea reaches much further back (1873) and was first professionally used in the area of law to look up related cases Shepard's Citations.

Nalimov's father, Vasily Petrovich, obtained a formal medical degree in Moscow, was an anthropologist and ethnographer and was considered a shaman by his community.