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Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties

and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties

Birkhäuser

Authors:

  1. Gennady E. Gorelik

    1. Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, E56-100 Cambridge, USA

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  2. Victor Ya. Frenkel

    1. A.E. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, St. Petersburg, K-21, Russia

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Part of the book series: Science Networks. Historical Studies (SNHS, volume 12)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-11
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  2. Childhood and Youth. Road to Science

    • Gennady E. Gorelik, Victor Ya. Frenkel
    Pages 13-18

  3. In Leningrad University (1926–1930)

    • Gennady E. Gorelik, Victor Ya. Frenkel
    Pages 19-32

  4. At the Leningrad Physicotechnical Institute

    • Gennady E. Gorelik, Victor Ya. Frenkel
    Pages 33-61

  5. Hard Times for the Laws of Conservation and for Theoreticians

    • Gennady E. Gorelik, Victor Ya. Frenkel
    Pages 63-82

  6. cGℏ Physics in Bronstein’s Life

    • Gennady E. Gorelik, Victor Ya. Frenkel
    Pages 83-121

  7. Creative Personality

    • Gennady E. Gorelik, Victor Ya. Frenkel
    Pages 123-141

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 143-208
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About this book

The true history of physics can only be read in the life stories of those who made its progress possible. Matvei Bronstein was one of those for whom the vast territory of theoretical physics was as familiar as his own home: he worked in cosmology, nuclear physics, gravitation, semiconductors, atmospheric physics, quantum electrodynamics, astro­ physics and the relativistic quantum theory. Everyone who knew him was struck by his wide knowledge, far beyond the limits of his trade. This partly explains why his life was closely intertwined with the social, historical and scientific context of his time. One might doubt that during his short life Bronstein could have made truly weighty contributions to science and have become, in a sense, a symbol ofhis time. Unlike mathematicians and poets, physicists reach the peak oftheir careers after the age of thirty. His thirty years of life, however, proved enough to secure him a place in theGreaterSovietEncyclopedia. In 1967, in describing the first generation of physicists educated after the 1917 revolution, Igor Tamm referred to Bronstein as "an exceptionally brilliant and promising" theoretician [268].
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, E56-100 Cambridge, USA

    Gennady E. Gorelik

  • A.E. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, St. Petersburg, K-21, Russia

    Victor Ya. Frenkel

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties

  • Book Subtitle: and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties

  • Authors: Gennady E. Gorelik, Victor Ya. Frenkel

  • Series Title: Science Networks. Historical Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8488-4

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-2752-1Published: 01 February 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9644-3Published: 21 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8488-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1421-6329

  • Series E-ISSN: 2296-6080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 208

  • Additional Information: Original Russian edition published by Nauka, Moscow, 1990

  • Topics: Mathematics, general

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