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Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties

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, atmosp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gorelik, Gennady E., Frenkel, Victor Ya (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:Science Networks. Historical Studies
Subjects:
Mathematics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Childhood and Youth. Road to Science
  • 2 In the Leningrad University (1926–1932)
  • 2.1. Entering the University
  • 2.2. The Jazz-Band
  • 2.3. The Abbot and his Astronomer Friends
  • 2.4. First Works in Astrophysics, Geophysics and Popular Science
  • 2.5. At the Shenroks on the Vasiliev Island
  • 3 At the Leningrad Physicotechnical Institute
  • 3.1. Theoretical Physics in St. Petersburg and Petrograd
  • 3.2. The Physicotechnical Institute and Its Seminars
  • 3.3. “Quantising Free Electrons in a Magnetic Field”
  • 3.4. “A New Crisis in the Theory of Quanta”
  • 3.5. Science and Society
  • 3.6. Quantum Mechanics in the Early Thirties
  • 3.7. Cosmology in the Early Thirties
  • 3.8. The Ether and the Theory of Relativity
  • 3.9. Styles and Generations
  • 3.10. The Physics of Semiconductors and Nuclear Physics
  • 4 Hard Times for the Laws of Conservation and for Theoreticians
  • 4.1. Three Attempts to Topple the Law of Conservation of Energy
  • Appendix 1. Extract from M.P.Bronstein’s paper “Quantentheorie schwacher Gravitationsfelder”, 1936
  • Appendix 2. M.P.Bronstein’s note “Über den Spontanen Zerfall der Photonen”, 1936
  • Appendix 3. M.P.Bronstein “Inventors of Radiotelegraph” (First chapters of the book)
  • Photographs
  • 4.2. The Hypothesis of Non-conservation and the Arguments of its Supporters
  • 4.3. Non-Physical Arguments Applied to Physics
  • 4.4. A Duel in Sorena
  • 4.5. The Death of a Non-conservation Hypothesis
  • 5 cG?-Physics in Bronstein’s Life
  • 5.1. An Unsuitable Thesis
  • 5.2. The Roots of Bronstein’s Interest in cG?-physics
  • 5.3. The Quantum Theory of the Weak Gravitational Field
  • 5.4. “The Fundamental Differences Between Quantum Electrodynamics and the Quantum Theory of Gravitational Field”. The Quantum Gravitational Limits
  • 5.5. Physics and Cosmology
  • 6 Creative Personality
  • 6.1. Perceiving the World
  • 6.2. Vocation of a Teacher
  • 6.3. Science and Literature
  • 6.4. Personality
  • Afterword
  • Afterword to the English Edition. Half a Century Later
  • 1. From the KGB-NKVD Archives
  • 2. The Last Days in the Cell
  • 3. Subnuclear Physics,Matvei Bronstein and Ettore Majorana
  • Chronology
  • Notes

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