Feinberg E.L. Physicists: Epoch and Personalities

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World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011, 436 pages
History of Mode Physical Sciences, 2 edition

The book is a collection of memoirs on famous Soviet physicists of the 20th century, such as Tamm, Vavilov, Sakharov, Landau and others. The memoirs were originally written in Russian by E L Feinberg. The narrative is situated within a remarkably well-described historical, cultural and social context. Of special interest are the chapters devoted to Soviet and German atomic projects.
The second edition differs from the first one in two main points. Firstly, in adding two new essays on Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (which was completely absent in the first edition) and the new short one on S.I. Vavilov that adds to what was already written before. Secondly, the essay on Heisenberg
has been significantly expanded. In recent years there arose a new boom in a vast literature on him (in which one meets radically different opinions on his behavior during Nazi times for which he was subjected to ostracism by Weste physicists) due to an appearance of new previously unreachable sources. The author’s point of view differs from these opinions expressed by people who did not have a misfortune to live under an inhuman dictatorship. In the second edition this point of view of the author has been further sharpened.

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