By M Shifman
This worthy choice of memoirs and stories on clinical actions of the main well known theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau tuition -- Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm -- are being released in English for the 1st time.
the most objective is to acquaint readers with the existence and paintings of exceptional Soviet physicists who, to a wide quantity, formed theoretical physics within the 1950s-70s. Many interesting info have remained unknown past the "Iron Curtain" which was once dismantled basically with the autumn of the USSR.
Readership: scholars and lecturers of physics in excessive faculties and schools.
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He once introduced Landau to a lady who, if not a woman of easy virtue, in any case came close to that definition. ” Dau replied. ” *** Now on to other subjects. In conversations and seminars, Landau liked to speak aphoristically. These were his own aphorisms, and he sometimes repeated them. ” In fact, his aphorisms held a deeper meaning. Landau understood that it’s hard to argue with an aphoristic expression, and that this is the best way to end a useless debate that otherwise would go on indefinitely.
But his time for success ran out: Stalin died. A short time later, Khozyainov was fired from IPP. Landau never mentioned him again. Landau’s Seminar Being Landau’s student was a title that came with no privileges, just duties, since anyone could have scientific discussions with Landau and get his advice. Only a few of those who passed the minimum became his graduate students. The right and simultaneously the responsibility of a Landau student was full-fledged participation in his seminar. But, again, anyone could participate in the seminar, ask questions and make comments.
26. Landau’s arrest and interrogation file was declassified and became available to historians only 60 years later. A KGB briefing concerning Landau prepared for the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the early 1960s was found in Central Committee’s secret archive and published a few years earlier. April 5, 2013 14:7 32 WSPC/Trim Size: 9in x 6in for Proceedings 2d˙Gersh-Priroda˙Land˙One S. S. ” The last words are prophetic. The Stalin system’s obliteration of the Red Army’s top command personnel, of industrial leaders and talented structural engineers was paid for by the country with the tragedy of the initial stages of the Great Patriotic Ware and the loss of millions of human lives.