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Author:

Hargittai, Istv©Łn, author.

Title:

Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Scientists--Soviet Union--Biography.
Science--Soviet Union.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0199985596
9780199985593

OCLC:

(OCoLC)828057677

LCCN:

2013005419

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)