Hargittai, Istvan. <br/><br/>
Buried glory :  portraits of Soviet scientists / 
Istvan Hargittai. 
 - 1 online resource (369 pages) :  illustrations, portraits 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Nuclear physicists. Igor Tamm: exemplary consistency ; Yakov Zeldovich: Soviet Prometheus ; Andrei Sakharov: Soviet conscience -- Low-temperature physicists. Petr Kapitza: respected Centaur ; Lev Landau: genius & Evgenii Lifshits: more than Landau's pen ; Vitaly Ginzburg: amateur astronomer ; Alexei Abrikosov: "unmanageable" -- Chemists and chemical physicists. Nikolai Semenov: Mr. Chain Reaction ; Yulii Khariton: director of "Los Arzamas" ; Boris Belousov & Anatol Zhabotinsky: "impossible" reaction ; Aleksandr Kitaigorodskii: Soviet maverick ; Aleksandr Nesmeyanov: brilliant administrator and Soviet courtier. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199985609 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scientists--Soviet Union--Biography.<br/>Science--Soviet Union.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q141  / .H263 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>509.2/247