03593nam 2200721 450 991080965950332120211005152750.00-19-028877-91-280-50246-097866105024621-4237-2024-50-19-534374-31-60256-690-9(CKB)1000000000245722(EBL)279430(OCoLC)191038518(SSID)ssj0000274573(PQKBManifestationID)11220429(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000274573(PQKBWorkID)10325813(PQKB)10107298(MiAaPQ)EBC4702405(MiAaPQ)EBC279430(MiAaPQ)EBC5824878(Au-PeEL)EBL4702405(CaPaEBR)ebr11273553(OCoLC)781007468(MiAaPQ)EBC5797699(PPN)13977565X(EXLCZ)99100000000024572220161012h20052005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe world of Andrei Sakharov a Russian physicist's path to freedom /Gennady Gorelik with Antonina W. BouisOxford, [England] ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2005.©20051 online resource (457 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-515620-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: How I Came to Write This Book; Prologue: Pyotr Lebedev: The Pressure of Light and the Pressure of Circumstances; 1 The Emergence of Soviet Physics and the Birth of FIAN; 2 Leonid Mandelshtam: The Teacher and His School; 3 The Year 1937; 4 The Moral Underpinnings of the Soviet Atomic Project; 5 Andrei Sakharov, Tamm's Graduate Student; 6 Sergei Vavilov: The President of the Academy of Sciences; 7 Nuclear Physics under Beria's Command; 8 Russian Physics at the Height of Cosmopolitanism; 9 The Hydrogen Bomb at FIAN; 10 The Installation11 The "Heroic" Work at the Installation12 Theoretical Physicists in Soviet Practice; 13 The Physics of Social Responsibility; 14 From Military Physics to Peaceful Cosmology; 15 World Peace and World Science; 16 Reflections on Intellectual Freedom in 1968; 17 Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn: The Physics and Geometry of Russian History; 18 On the Other Side; 19 Andrei and Lusya; 20 Freedom and Responsibility; Chronology; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZHow 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? This study of Andrei Sakharov as a scientist as well as a public figure aims to examine the real context of Sakharov's life.PhysicistsSoviet UnionBiographyDissentersSoviet UnionBiographyHuman rights workersRussia (Federation)BiographySoviet UnionPolitics and government1953-1985PhysicistsDissentersHuman rights workers530.092Gorelik G. E(Gennadiĭ Efimovich),1719242Bouis Antonina W.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809659503321The world of Andrei Sakharov4116888UNINA