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Author:   V.L. Ginzburg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Institute of Physics Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.975kg
ISBN:  

9780750309929

ISBN 10:   075030992
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   31 October 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Part I 1. What problems of physics and astrophysics seem now to be especially important and interesting at the beginning of the 21st century? 2. Radiation by uniformly moving sources (Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, Doppler effect in a medium, transition radiation, and other phenomena) 3. On the birth and development of cosmic-ray astrophysics 4. Remarks on my work in radio astronomy 5. Some remarks on ferroelectricity, soft modes and related problems 6. Superconductivity: the day before yesterday - yesterday -today - tomorrow 7. Superconductivity and superfluidity (what was done and what was not) Part II 8. A long, arduous, and varied life:on the 100th anniversary of the birthday ofIgor Evgenevich Tamm 9. 'Singing' electrons 10. Lev Davidovich Landau - the physicist and the man 11. Physics, the 'Course', and life: on the 80th anniversary of Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz 12. In memory of David Abramovich Kirzhnits 13. About Efim Fradkin 14. In memory of Vitya Shvartsman 15. In memory of Vadim Sidur 16. About Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov 17. Notes of an amateur astrophysicist 18. The business of bygone days: reminiscences of my participation in the ""atomic project"" 19. How I became a theoretical physicist and, in general about myself... Part III 20. Answers to the Physics World's Milleniums Survey questionnaire 21. Why Soviet scientists did not always get the Nobel Prizes they deserved 22. Once more about the history of the discovery of combinational light scattering 23. Back to the Middle Ages - where soothsayers, wizards, and witnesses of miracles, all through television and newspapers, lead us 24. Should we fight pseudoscience? 25. What is happening to us? 26. Communists again stand as the paramount menace for Russia and entire world 27. Juridical sentence upon bolshevik communism 28. Inner weakness (what has been forgotten by Academician Zhores Alferov) 29. I do not Understand these so-called patriots (a self-interview) 30. Answers to several questions 31. Reason and faith"

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