LEADER 02851nam 2200577 450 001 9910822732903321 005 20230124183950.0 010 $a0-19-998561-8 010 $a0-19-998560-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000001126229 035 $a(EBL)1480973 035 $a(OCoLC)861559182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001001068 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12492535 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001068 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10961527 035 $a(PQKB)11318303 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1480973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1480973 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10774695 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL526892 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001126229 100 $a20130212h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuried glory $eportraits of Soviet scientists /$fIstvan Hargittai 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-998559-6 311 $a1-299-95641-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aMoscow'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 f 606 $aScientists$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aScience$zSoviet Union 615 0$aScientists 615 0$aScience 676 $a509.2/247 700 $aHargittai$b Istva?n$021292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822732903321 996 $aBuried glory$94126515 997 $aUNINA