Making Waves
Subtitle: Stories from My Life
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780300078213
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: from c 1900 -; History of science; 20th century; Scientists; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Physics; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; (IAkov Lvovich); (ëIìAkov L§vovich); Alpert, IA. L; Al§pert, ëIìA. L.; Biography; Physicists; Russia (Federation)
Description: "Alpert tells in this personal memoir what it was like to be a scientist during the entire life cycle of the Soviet Union. His account provides a uniquely revealing look inside the Soviet scientific community, a firsthand view of Soviet society from postrevolutionary days to the nation's ultimate collapse, and a thought-provoking description of how scientists and citizens responded, some bravely and some cravenly, to the repression and anti-Semitism of the Soviet regime."--BOOK JACKET.