1. Mandelstam, Leonid Isaakovich (1879-1944). 1.1. Progenitor -- 2. Tamm, Igor Evgen'evich (1895-1971). 2.1. Tamm in life. 2.2. A life of a Russian intelligent. 2.3. I.E. Tamm and the formation of domestic physics -- 3. Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich (1921-1989). 3.1. For a future…
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam -- Igor Evgenjevich Tamm -- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov -- Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov -- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Leontovich -- Aleksandr L'vovich Mintz -- Niels Hendrik David Bohr -- Werner Karl Heisenbeg -- What Brought Hitler to Power? And Who? -- Lev…
The book is a collection of memoirs on famous Soviet physicists of the 20th century, such as Tamm, Vavilov, Sakharov, Landau and others. The narrative is situated within a remarkably well-described historical, cultural and social context. Of special interest are the chapters dev…
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam -- Igor Evgenjevich Tamm -- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov -- Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov -- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Leontovich -- Aleksandr L'vovich Mintz -- Niels Hendrik David Bohr -- Werner Karl Heisenbeg -- What Brought Hitler to Power? And Who? -- Lev…
The book is a collection of memoirs on famous Soviet physicists of the 20th century, such as Tamm, Vavilov, Sakharov, Landau and others. The memoirs were originally written in Russian by E.L. Feinberg. The narrative is situated within a remarkably well-described historical, cult…
Physics in a mad world: Houtermans, Golfand
This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch-Austrian-German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energ…
Ch. 1. Lev Landau. Lev Davidovich Landau / Boris Ioffe -- Landau as I knew him / S.S. Gershtein -- ch. 2. Arkady Migdal. Arkady Benediktovich Migdal / N.O. Agasyan [und weitere] -- Remembering AB / S.T. Belyayev -- A.B. Migdal in my life / Anatoly Larkin -- Memories of A.B. Migd…
This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School - Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm - are being published in English…