Buried glory
Subtitle: portraits of Soviet scientists
By: Istvan Hargittai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780199985593
Subjects: Science; Biography; Scientists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nuclear physicists. Igor Tamm: exemplary consistency ; Yakov Zeldovich: Soviet Prometheus ; Andrei Sakharov: Soviet conscience; title: Low-temperature physicists. Petr Kapitza: respected Centaur ; Lev Landau: genius & Evgenii Lifshits: more than Landau's pen ; Vitaly Ginzburg: amateur astronomer ; Alexei Abrikosov: "unmanageable"; title: 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.