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Autore: | Gorelik G. E (Gennadiĭ Efimovich) |
Titolo: | The world of Andrei Sakharov : a Russian physicist's path to freedom / / Gennady Gorelik with Antonina W. Bouis |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
©2005 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina: | 530.092 |
Soggetto topico: | Physicists - Soviet Union |
Dissenters - Soviet Union | |
Human rights workers - Russia (Federation) | |
Soggetto geografico: | Soviet Union Politics and government 1953-1985 |
Persona (resp. second.): | BouisAntonina W. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Installation |
11 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; Z | |
Sommario/riassunto: | How 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The world of Andrei Sakharov |
ISBN: | 0-19-028877-9 |
1-280-50246-0 | |
9786610502462 | |
1-4237-2024-5 | |
0-19-534374-3 | |
1-60256-690-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809659503321 |
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