Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.
Hargittai, István.
2013
Q141 .H263 2013
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Title Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.
Author Hargittai, István.
ISBN 9780199985593
9780199985609 (electronic book)
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Call Number Q141 .H263 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 509.2/247
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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