| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The world of Andrei Sakharov/ Gennady Gorelik with Antonina W. Bouis. |
| Reminder of title: |
a Russian physicist's path to freedom / |
| Author: |
Gorelik, G. E. |
| other author: |
Bouis, Antonina W. |
| Published: |
Oxford [Eng.];Oxford University Press, : 2005., |
| Description: |
xviii, 406 p. :ill. ;25 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Dissenters - Biography. - Soviet Union - |
| Subject: |
Soviet Union - Politics and government - 1953-1985. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=138174An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1423720245 (electronic bk.) |