Professor Meiman is an internationally recognized authority in mathematics and elementary particle theory. His daughter and grandson live in Boulder. Colorado. In 1975. after applying for an exit visa to leave the Soviet Union he had to resign from his job at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. where he had worked for many decades. He was not only deprived of this work. but he was also expelled from the Hospital where he had received medical treatment for over 35 years. He is gravely ill with a heart ailment and the deprivation of medical care by the Soviets was a terrible blow.