Gennady Gorelik: 2 books
The World of Andrei Sakharov
A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was "simply a man with an unusual fate." To...
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties
and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The true history of physics can only be read in the life stories of those who made its progress possible. Matvei Bronstein was one of those for whom the vast territory of theoretical physics was as familiar as his own home: he worked in cosmology, nuclear physics, gravitation, semiconductors, atmospheric...