UNDER THE SPELL OF LANDAU - WHEN THEORETICAL PHYSICS WAS

This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School Landau, Anselm, Gribov, Zeldovich, Kirzhnits, Migdal, Ter-Martirosyan and Larkin 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mikhail Shifman, Mikhail Shifman
• Assisted by: Mikhail Shifman (Editor), Misha Shifman (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2013
• EAN: 9789814436557
• ISBN: 978-981-4436-55-7
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 952 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works