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1 online resource (xxii, 537 pages :) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Ch. 1. Lev Landau. Lev Davidovich Landau / Boris Ioffe -- Landau as I knew him / S.S. Gershtein -- ch. 2. Arkady Migdal. Arkady Benediktovich Migdal / N.O. Agasyan [and others] -- Remembering AB / S.T. Belyayev -- A.B. Migdal in my life / Anatoly Larkin -- Memories of A.B. Migdal / V.A. Khodel -- Memories of AB / V.G. Vaks -- Grand master / Alexander Polyakov -- ch. 3. Yakov Zeldovich. On the path towards universal weak interaction / S.S. Gershtein -- A simple love story / Anna Shiryaeva -- ch. 4. Yakov Smorodinsky. Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky / Noemi Smorodinskaya -- Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky at Leningrad State University / I.V. Komarov -- About hydrotechnical laboratory, Professor Smorodinsky, and nucleon-nucleon scattering / R.M. Ryndin -- Remembering Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky / F. Calogero -- Remembering Yakov Abramovich / A. Frenkel -- Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky and his influence on my life / P. Winternitz -- Yakov Abramovich as I remember him / Julia Nyíri -- About Yakov Abramovich / Pál Nyíri -- ch. 5. Karen Ter-Martirosyan. Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan -- Karen Avetovich / M. Shifman -- K.A. Ter-Martirosyan as I remember him / A.V. Smilga -- Memories of Karen Avetovich / Roman Nevzorov -- A few lines about Karen / Noemi Smorodinskaya -- ch. 6. David Kirzhnits. David Abramovich Kirzhnits / B.M. Bolotovsky [and others] -- Memoirs / David Kirzhnits -- Memories of David Kirzhnits / B.M. Bolotovsky -- David Abramovich / A.D. Linde -- ch. 7. Vladimir Gribov. Vladimir Naumovich Gribov: introduction -- Vladimir Naumovich Gribov / A. Frenkel -- V.N. Gribov: 1930-1997 / Yuri Dokshitzer -- On V.N. Gribov / B.L. Ioffe -- In memory of a friend / S.S. Gershtein -- ch. 8. Anatoly Larkin. Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin -- My brother Tolya / Alexander I. Larkin -- Glimpses of Tolya Larkin / V.G. Vaks -- A student's memories / Yuri Ovchinnikov -- He lived among us / V.L. Pokrovsky -- Remembering Larkin / Andrei Varlamov -- Tolya Larkin at the institute / M. Shifman -- ch. 9. Alexei Anselm. Alexei Andreevich Anselm / D.I. Diakonov -- Alyosha and I were close friends / A.M. Polyakov -- Memoirs / Ludmila Anselm -- ch. 10. Time and destinies. Snapshots from the 1950s / Yuri F. Orlov -- Bruno Pontecorvo: recollections and reflections / S.S. Gershtein -- ITEP Theory Department: glimpses / M. Shifman -- Living in truth: V.N. Gribov and the post-war generation of Soviet physics / Pál Nyíri and Joana Breidenbach -- ch. 11. Some details for experts. Great universalist of the 20th century / S.S. Gershtein -- Landau and modern physics / V.L. Pokrovsky -- Strong interactions at high energies in the Reggeon approach / K.G. Boreskov, A.B. Kaidalov, and O.V. Kancheli -- Anselm's discovery of the Gross-Neveu model in 1958 / M. Shifman -- A model of field theory with nonvanishing renormalized charge / A.A. Anselm. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968.
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Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968. |
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Landau, Lev Davidovich, 1908-1968. |
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Physicists.
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Physicists. |
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Physics -- Study and teaching.
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Physics -- Study and teaching. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Shifman, Mikhail A.
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Print version: Shifman, Mikhail A. Under the Spell of Landau : When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, ©2013 9789814436557 |
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9789814436571 (electronic book) |
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9814436577 (electronic book) |
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9789814436557 |
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