Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies

Shifman, Mikhail

ISBN 10: 9814436569 / ISBN 13: 9789814436564

Published by World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2013

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537 pages. 9.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814436569
• ISBN 13: 9789814436564
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.93 kilograms

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Synopsis

This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School -- Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm -- are being published in English for the first time.The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the "Iron Curtain" which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR.

From the Back Cover

This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School Landau, Anselm, Gribov, Zeldovich, Kirzhnits, Migdal, Ter-Martirosyan and Larkin are being published in English for the first time.

The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s 70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the "Iron Curtain" which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR.