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The World of Andrei Sakharov : a Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom.
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 Sak...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.