Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789814436557)

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.

Author: Misha Shifman
ISBN-10: 9814436550
ISBN-13: 9789814436557
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2013
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.70w x 1.10d