Stalin's Great Science
Subtitle: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (History of Modern Physical Sciences)
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781860944192
Subjects: History of science; 20th century; Science/Mathematics; Science; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); History; Physics
First sentence: During the early years of the 20th century, the prevailing motivation among Russian academic researchers was to catch up with their European colleagues in contributing to the world's body of knowledge in 'pure' sciences, all the while demonstrating sometimes benign but mostly arrogant neglect of practical, 'applied' research.