V. L. Ginzburg

About Science, Myself and Others

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Produktbeschreibung

In About Science, Myself and Others, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics and Editor of the review journal Physics-Uspekhi, provides an insight into modern physics, the lives and works of other prominent physicists he has known, and insight into his own life and views on physics and beyond. Divided into three parts, the book starts with a review of the key problems in contemporary physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, examining their historical development and why they pose such a challenge to today's physicists and for society. Part One also includes details of some of Professor Ginzburg's work, including superconductivity and superfluidity. Part Two encompasses several articles on the lives and works of several prominent physicists, including the author. The third part is a collection of articles that provide a personal view of the author, describing his personal views and recollections on a range of wider topics. Taken together, this collection of articles creates an enjoyable review of physics, its philosophy, and key players in its modern development in the 20th Century. Undoubtedly, it will be an enjoyable read for professional physicists and non-scientists alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1000g
• ISBN-13: 9780750309929
• ISBN-10: 075030992X
• Artikelnr.: 21157244

Autorenporträt

Ginzburg, V.L.

Inhaltsangabe

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: some remarks concerning the
encyclical letter Fides et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II 32.
Science and religion in the modern world 33. Once again about science and
religion in the modern world 34. Russia must not slide into a slough of
clericalism 35. International Humanist Movement and Manifesto 2000
Curriculum vitae of Vitaly L Ginzburg