The world of Andrei Sakharov a Russian physicist's path to freedom

Горелик, Г. Е. (Геннадий Ефимович) Gorelik, G. E. (Gennadiĭ Efimovich) (Author). Bouis, Antonina W. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 1423720245 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781423720249 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xviii, 406 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The emergence of Soviet physics and the birth of FIAN -- Leonid Mandelshtam : the teacher and his school -- The year 1937 -- The moral underpinnings of the Soviet atomic project -- Andrei Sakharov, Tamm's graduate student -- Sergei Vavilov : the president of the Academy of Sciences -- Nuclear physics under Beria's command -- Russian physics at the height of cosmopolitanism -- The hydrogen bomb at FIAN -- The Installation -- The "heroic" work at the Installation -- Theoretical physicists in Soviet practice -- The physics of social responsibility -- From military physics to peaceful cosmology -- World peace and world science -- Reflections on intellectual freedom in 1968 -- Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn : the physics and geometry of Russian history -- On the other side -- Andrei and Lusya -- Freedom and responsibility.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.