Book ID: CBB001451840

Buried Glory: Portraits of Soviet Scientists (2013)

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Hargittai, István (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xiii + 352 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Scientists -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Science -- Soviet Union. Science. 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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Authors & Contributors
Doel, Ronald E.
Dove, William F.
Fleck, Christian
Friedman, Robert Marc
Graham, Loren R.
Gutfreund, Hanoch
Journals
Almagest
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
History of Psychiatry
History of Psychology
Journal of Historical Geography
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Publishers
American Chemical Society
Bloomsbury Academic
Boston University
Cornell University Press
Indiana University Press
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Scientists
National histories
Science and politics
Biographies
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Science and society
People
Einstein, Albert
Stalin, Joseph
Accum, Frederick
Crookes, William
Crow, James Franklin
Fuchs, Klaus
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Germany
East Germany
Institutions
New Zealand Institute of Chemistry
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