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Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists
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Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.
ISBN
9780199985593 (alkaline paper)
9780199985609 (e-book)
Publication
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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Print version: Hargittai, István. Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2019
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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