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The world of Andrei Sakharov : a Russian physicist's path to freedom
- Title
- The world of Andrei Sakharov : a Russian physicist's path to freedom / Gennady Gorelik with Antonina W. Bouis.
- Author
- Gorelik, G. E. (Gennadiĭ Efimovich)
- Publication
- Oxford [Eng.]; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bouis, Antonina W.
- Description
- xviii, 406 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Andreĭ Sakharov. English
- Alternative Title
- Andreĭ Sakharov.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The emergence of Soviet physics and the birth of FIAN -- Leonid Mandelshtam : the teacher and his school -- The year 1937 -- The moral underpinnings of the Soviet atomic project -- Andrei Sakharov, Tamm's graduate student -- Sergei Vavilov : the president of the Academy of Sciences -- Nuclear physics under Beria's command -- Russian physics at the height of cosmopolitanism -- The hydrogen bomb at FIAN -- The Installation -- The "heroic" work at the Installation -- Theoretical physicists in Soviet practice -- The physics of social responsibility -- From military physics to peaceful cosmology -- World peace and world science -- Reflections on intellectual freedom in 1968 -- Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn : the physics and geometry of Russian history -- On the other side -- Andrei and Lusya -- Freedom and responsibility.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-6628
- ISBN
- 019515620X (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2003016991
- OCLC
- 60602977
- Author
- Gorelik, G. E. (Gennadiĭ Efimovich)
- Title
- The world of Andrei Sakharov : a Russian physicist's path to freedom / Gennady Gorelik with Antonina W. Bouis.
- Imprint
- Oxford [Eng.]; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bouis, Antonina W.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-6628