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Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destinies

By Mikhail Shifman

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2013
ISBN
9814436550, 9789814436557
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3701984 bytes)
Pages
560\560
Topic
Physics
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-01-23 10:47:06
Физика;История физики

Description

This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School -- Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm -- are being published in English for the first time. The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the "Iron Curtain" which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR. Readership: Students and teachers of physics in high schools and colleges.

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