Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.
By: Hargittai, Istv�an.
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations, portraits.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199985609 (e-book).Subject(s): Scientists -- Soviet Union -- Biography | Science -- Soviet UnionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 509.2/247 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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