NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS - Key Persons
Frank Harry Columbus was born on February 26th, 1941, in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He joined the army upon graduation from high school (1960-1962) and went on to complete his education at the University of Maryland (1960-1964) and George Washington University (1964-1971). In 1969, he became the Vice-President of Cambridge Scientific and worked there until 1975. In 1975, he was invited to work for Plenum Publishing (now a part of Springer), where he was the Vice-President until 1985 when he founded Nova Science Publishers.
Founded in 1985 in New York by Frank Columbus, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. has become one of the leading STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) publishers worldwide. Since his passing in 2010, Nova is led by his wife and partner Nadya Columbus and various department managers. Our publications include printed (hardcover and softcover) and electronic books, journals, conference proceedings, handbooks, encyclopedias, edited collections and series collections. We publish over 1,000 new titles every year by scientists in the top universities and colleges from around the world.
Nadya was born and raised in Russia and in the Republic of Georgia. Traveling abroad was something she could not do while growing up in the former USSR. But in the last thirty years, Nadya traveled extensively, both for business and leisure. Today, she continues to split her time in the Republic of Georgia, the United States and Russia. Her experience in the publishing industry began at the Copyright Agency of the former USSR in Moscow where she worked for seven years and the second, thirty-six years (and ongoing) with Nova. Meeting, working and corresponding with the most exciting people from different countries, fields and backgrounds remains one of her biggest joys. She is grateful for the people who had and continue to have the greatest influences in her life - her late husband, her parents, Bishop Mitrophan Znosko, Merab Mamardashvili, Galina Ulanova, Grigory Pomerants, Ruslan Skrynnikov, and publishing legend Martin Levin.