Bibliograph

Buried glory, portraits of Soviet scientists, Istvan Hargittai

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Label

Buried glory, portraits of Soviet scientists, Istvan Hargittai

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Buried glory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

828057677

Responsibility statement

Istvan Hargittai

Sub title

portraits of Soviet scientists

Table Of Contents

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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