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Author
Hargittai, Istvan.
Title
Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists / Istvan Hargittai.
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New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
2013
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1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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Includes bibliographical references 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.
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Scientists -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Science -- Soviet Union.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Hargittai, Istvan. Buried glory : portraits of Soviet scientists. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013] xii, 352 pages 9780199985593 (DLC) 2013005419
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9780199985593 (alkaline paper)
9780199985609 (electronic bk.)
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