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Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists
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Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.
ISBN
9780199985593 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0199985596 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Nuclear physicists. Igor Tamm: exemplary consistency ; Yakov Zeldovich: Soviet Prometheus ; Andrei Sakharov: Soviet conscience
Low-temperature physicists. Petr Kapitza: respected Centaur ; Lev Landau: genius & Evgenii Lifshits: more than Landau's pen ; Vitaly Ginzburg: amateur astronomer ; Alexei Abrikosov: "unmanageable"
Chemists and chemical physicists. Nikolai Semenov: Mr. Chain Reaction ; Yulii Khariton: director of "Los Arzamas" ; Boris Belousov & Anatol Zhabotinsky: "impossible" reaction ; Aleksandr Kitaigorodskii: Soviet maverick ; Aleksandr Nesmeyanov: brilliant administrator and Soviet courtier.
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