Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.

  • Hargittai, István
Date:
[2013]
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About this work

Publication/Creation

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Physical description

xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ABR.31.AA9
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ISBN

  • 0199985596
  • 9780199985593