The apex of Soviet science as seen through the lives of twelve of the USSR's most eminent researchers Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery is the final resting place of some of Russia's most celebrated figures, from Khrushchev and Yeltsin to Anton Chekhov, Sergei Eisenstein, Nikolai Gogol, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Using this famed cemetery as symbolic starting point, Buried Glory profiles a dozen eminent Soviet scientists-nine of whom are buried at Novodevichy-men who illustrate both the glorious heights of Soviet research as well as the eclipse of science since the collapse of the USSR. Drawing on extensive archival research and his own personal memories, renowned chemist Istvan Hargittai bring these figures back to life, placing their remarkable scientific achievements against the tense political backdrop of the Cold War. Among the eminent scientists profiled here are Petr L. Kapitza, one of the most brilliant representatives of the great generation of Soviet physicists, a Nobel-Prize winner who risked his career-and his life-standing up for fellow scientists against Stalin. Yulii B. Khariton, who ran the highly secretive Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory, Arzamas-16, despite being Jewish and despite the fact that his father Boris had been sent to the labor camps. And Andrei D. Sakharov, the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a brilliant fighter for human rights, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Along the way, Hargittai shines a light on the harrowing conditions under which these brilliant researchers excelled. Indeed, in the post-war period, Stalin's anti-Semitism and ongoing anti-science measures devastated biology, damaged chemistry, and nearly destroyed physics. The latter was saved only because Stalin realized that without physics and physicists there could be no nuclear weapons. The extraordinary scientific talent nurtured by the Soviet regime belongs almost entirely to the past. Buried Glory is both a fitting tribute to these great scientists and a fascinating account of scientific work behind the Iron Curtain.

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Hargittai, Istvan;

István Hargittai

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New York, NY, 2013, cop. 2013

New York State, 2013

1, 2013-10-22

1, PS, 2013

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类型: 图书

出版日期: 2013.10

出版社: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

页码: 369

摘要: A chronicle of the lives of twelve notable and celebrated Soviet scientists from the Cold War...

开本: 64.73

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover 1
Contents 10
Preface 12
Introduction 18
PART ONE: Nuclear Physicists 26
1. Igor Tamm: Exemplary Consistency 28
2. Yakov Zeldovich: Soviet Prometheus 52
3. Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Conscience 76
PART TWO: Low-Temperature Physicists 110
4. Petr Kapitza: Respected Centaur 112
5. Lev Landau: Genius and Evgenii Lifshits: More Than Landau’s Pen 136
6. Vitaly Ginzburg: Amateur Astronomer 162
7. Alexei Abrikosov: “Unmanageable” 184
PART THREE: Chemists and Chemical Physicists 200
8. Nikolai Semenov: Mr. Chain Reaction 202
9. Yulii Khariton: Director of “Los Arzamas” 228
10. Boris Belousov and Anatol Zhabotinsky: “Impossible” Reaction 250
11. Aleksandr Kitaigorodskii: Soviet Maverick 268
12. Aleksandr Nesmeyanov: Brilliant Administrator and Soviet Courtier 286
Epilogue 306
Some Notable Dates, 1914–1991 312
Acknowledgments 316
Biographical Names 318
Select Bibliography 330
Notes 336
Index 356
A 356
B 357
C 358
D 358
E 359
F 360
G 360
H 361
I 361
J 362
K 362
L 363
M 364
N 364
O 365
P 365
Q 366
R 366
S 366
T 368
U 368
V 369
W 369
X 369
Y 369
Z 369

A chronicle of the lives of twelve notable and celebrated Soviet scientists from the Cold War era, a time of great scientific achievement in the USSR.

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