Overview
- Fascinating and comprehensive biography of a pioneering physicist and victim of Stalinism
- Draws upon author's personal contacts and includes a wealth of material never previously published in English
- Of interest to a broad range of readers including scientists and historians of science and politics
Part of the book series: Springer Biographies (SPRINGERBIOGS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937). From 1926 to 1930 Shubnikov worked in Leiden where he was the co-discoverer of the Shubnikov-De Haas effect. After his return to the Soviet Union he founded in Kharkov in Ukraine the first low-temperature laboratory in the Soviet Union, which in a very short time became the foremost physics institute in the country and among other things led to the discovery of type-II superconductivity. In August 1937 Shubnikov, together with many of his colleagues, was arrested and shot early in November 1937. This gripping story gives deep insights into the pioneering work of Soviet physicists before the Second World War, as well as providing much previously unpublished information about their brutal treatment at the hands of the Stalinist regime.
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About the author
L. J. Reinders has had an active career in high-energy physics, earning a PhD from Utrecht University in 1976 and working as a post-doc at various research centres in Europe and Japan until 1988, when he switched to law and legal translation. In this book he combines his earlier expertise as a physicist with his long-standing interest in Russian culture and science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov
Book Subtitle: Pioneer of Soviet Cryogenics
Authors: L. J. Reinders
Series Title: Springer Biographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72098-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72097-5Published: 09 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10156-5Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72098-2Published: 27 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-0613
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 351
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Low Temperature Physics, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Science