TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hargittai,Istvan
TI  - Buried glory: portraits of Soviet scientists 
AV  - Q141 .H263 2013
U1  - 509.2/247 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Biography
KW  - Science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1480973
ER  -