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Published on: 2013-10-22
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Original language: English

Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery is the final resting place of some of Russia's most celebrated figures, from Khrushchev and Yeltsin to Anton Chekhov, Sergei Eisenstein, Nikolai Gogol, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Using this famed cemetery as symbolic starting point, Buried Glory profiles a dozen eminent Soviet scientists-nine of whom are buried at Novodevichy-men who illustrate both the glorious heights of Soviet research as well as the eclipse of science since the collapse of the USSR.Drawing on extensive archival research and his own personal memories, renowned chemist Istvan Hargittai bring these figures back to life, placing their remarkable scientific achievements against the tense political backdrop of the Cold War. Among the eminent scientists profiled here are Petr L. Kapitza, one of the most brilliant representatives of the great generation of Soviet physicists, a Nobel-Prize winner who risked his career-and his life-standing up for fellow scientists against Stalin. Yulii B. Khariton, who ran the highly secretive Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory, Arzamas-16, despite being Jewish and despite the fact that his father Boris had been sent to the labor camps. And Andrei D. Sakharov, the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a brilliant fighter for human rights, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Along the way, Hargittai shines a light on the harrowing conditions under which these brilliant researchers excelled. Indeed, in the post-war period, Stalin's anti-Semitism and ongoing anti-science measures devastated biology, damaged chemistry, and nearly destroyed physics. The latter was saved only because Stalin realized that without physics and physicists there could be no nuclear weapons.The extraordinary scientific talent nurtured by the Soviet regime belongs almost entirely to the past. Buried Glory is both a fitting tribute to these great scientists and a fascinating account of scientific work behind the Iron Curtain. Environment: News & features - The Telegraph 06 Jan 2017 2:39pm Comment: Formula One is an outdated snooze-fest the British Grand Prix at Silverstone must end to make room for better motorsport Macmillan - Distinguished & Award Winning Global Publisher ... Love Warrior Glennon Doyle Melton in studio Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong powerful and brave; able to ... Atlantis History of the Golden Ages - 2 - Inicio Part 1. Discovery: The Lost Continent of Atlantis Ruins Map Evidence Ancient Writings About Atlantis . DISCOVERY: THE LOST CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS Bertrand Russell - Wikiquote To those who inquire as to the purpose of mathematics the usual answer will be that it facilitates the making of machines the travelling from place to place and ... Chiang Kai-shek - Wikipedia Chiang Kai-shek; : Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China; In office October 10 1928 December 15 1931: Premier: Tan Yankai Astrology: Osama bin Laden date of birth: 1957/03/10 ... Astrology: Osama bin Laden born March 10 1957 in Riyad Horoscope astrological portrait dominant planets birth data heights and interactive chart. 51886 Free ... Frida Kahlo Whose Self-Portraits Spoke to the Soul ... Frida Kahlos 1939 oil painting The Two Fridas. Credit All Rights Reserved 2016 Banco de Mxico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust Mexico D.F./Artists ... PDF Books - dloadvad.ru Michael Strebensen. I found out about Playster in the New York times and I'm very happy about it: One of the newest contenders in the crowded field a company ... Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 7 Yevgeny Yevtushenko The hopes for a general literary revival in Russia which were so strong in Moscow when I interviewed Boris Pasternak for The Paris Review in 1960 have not been ... Richard Nixon - Wikipedia Nixon's early life was marked by hardship and he later quoted a saying of Eisenhower to describe his boyhood: "We were poor but the glory of it was we didn't know ...
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