Matvei Petrovich Bronstein with his short life and tragic death (1906-1938) may be seen as a symbol of his time and his Country. One of the most remarkable features of Soviet history was the repressive advance of its physical sciences against the burial and violent background of totalitarianism- Soviet advances in nuclear and space technology form an important part of world history. These achievements had their roots in the 30s, when Bronstein's generation entered science. Among his friends were the famous physicists Lev Landau and George Gamow. Bronstein worked in the vast field of...
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein with his short life and tragic death (1906-1938) may be seen as a symbol of his time and his Country. One of the most remar...
This book is dedicated to the Soviet theoretician Yakov Ilich Frenkel (1894 - 1952), whose work in solid and liquid state physics is considered to be the golden foundation of twentieth century physics. Best known are the Frenkel pairs (defects), kinetic theory of liquids, theory of mobile dislocations (Frenkel- Kontorova solitons). Today, the electron theory of solids is inconceivable without excitons - the quasiparticles he introduced in 1930. Frenkel also contributed important concepts to classical electrodynamics (which now go under Feynmana ~s appellation "Frenkela ~s Fields") and to...
This book is dedicated to the Soviet theoretician Yakov Ilich Frenkel (1894 - 1952), whose work in solid and liquid state physics is considered to ...
Rudolf E. Peierls Boris M. Bolotovskii Victor YA Frenkel
I.E. Tamm is one of the great figures of 20th century physics and the mentor of the late A.D. Sakharov. Together with I.M. Frank, he received the Nobel Prize in 1958 for the explanation of the Cherenkov effect. This book contains a commented selection of his most important contributions to the physical literature and essays on his contemporaries - Mandelstam, Einstein, Landau, and Bohr - as well as his contributions to Pugwash conferences. About a third of the selections originally appeared in Russian and are, to our knowledge, for the first time now available to Western readers. This...
I.E. Tamm is one of the great figures of 20th century physics and the mentor of the late A.D. Sakharov. Together with I.M. Frank, he received t...
The true history of physics can only be read in the life stories of those who made its progress possible. Matvei Bronstein was one of those for whom the vast territory of theoretical physics was as familiar as his own home: he worked in cosmology, nuclear physics, gravitation, semiconductors, atmospheric physics, quantum electrodynamics, astro- physics and the relativistic quantum theory. Everyone who knew him was struck by his wide knowledge, far beyond the limits of his trade. This partly explains why his life was closely intertwined with the social, historical and scientific context of his...
The true history of physics can only be read in the life stories of those who made its progress possible. Matvei Bronstein was one of those for whom t...
An in-depth survey of the genesis and ramifications of Yakov Frenkel s scientific achievements. Special attention is paid to Frenkel s civic convictions and numerous other topics. The book contains a wealth of archival documents and is richly illustrated with photos and drawings.
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An in-depth survey of the genesis and ramifications of Yakov Frenkel s scientific achievements. Special attention is paid to Frenkel s civic convic...
