Stalin's Great Science
Subtitle: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (History of Modern Physical Sciences)
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781860944208
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; Science; 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.