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

by Victor Ya. Frenkel and Gennady E. Gorelik

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034896441
• ISBN13: 9783034896443
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"