Under The Spell Of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies

by Misha Shifman (Editor)

Overview

This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School — Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm — are being published in English for the first time.The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the “Iron Curtain” which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814436557
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/21/2013
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

From the Editor M. Shifman xiii

Part I

Chapter 1 Lev Landau 2

Lev Davidovich Landau Boris Ioffe 5

Landau as I Knew Him S. S. Gershtein 30

Chapter 2 Arkady Migdal 52

Arkady Benediktovich Migdal N. O. Agasyan S. T. Belyayev L. B. Okun E. E. Sapershtein 55

Remembering AB S. T. Belyayev 67

A. B. Migdal in My Life Anatoly Larkin 74

Memories of A. B. Migdal V. A. Khodel 88

Memories of AB V. G. Vaks 101

Grand Master Alexander Polyakov 114

Chapter 3 Yakov Zeldovich 120

On the Path Towards Universal Weak Interaction S. S. Gershtein 123

A Simple Love Story Anna Shiryaeva 154

Chapter 4 Yakov Smorodinsky 160

Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky Noemi Smorodinskaya 163

Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky at Leningrad State University I. V. Komarov 171

About Hydrotechnical Laboratory, Professor Smorodinsky, and Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering R. M. Ryndin 174

Remembering Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky F. Calogero 178

Remembering Yakov Abramovich A. Frenkel 181

Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky and His Influence on My Life P. Winternitz 183

Yakov Abramovich as I Remember Him Julia Nyíri 189

About Yakov Abramovich Pál Nyíri 194

Chapter 5 Karen Ter-Martirosyan 196

Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan 199

Karen Avetovich M. Shifman 203

K. A. Ter-Martirosyan as I Remember Him A. V. Smilga 207

Memories of Karen Avetovich Roman Nevzorov 212

A Few Lines about Karen Noemi Smorodinskaya 219

Chapter 6 David Kirzhnits 220

David Abramovich Kirzhnits B. M. Bolotovsky Yu. M. Bruk V. L. Ginzburg V. I. Ritus G. V. Shpatakovskaya 223

Memoirs David Kirzhnits 226

Memories of David Kirzhnits B. M. Bolotovsky 243

David Abramovich A. D. Linde 266

Chapter 7 Vladimir Gribov 274

Vladimir Naumovich Gribov: Introduction 277

Vladimir Naumovich Gribov A. Frenkel 284

V. N. Gribov: 1930-1997 Yuri Dokshitzer 287

On V. N. Gribov B. L. Ioffe 296

In Memory of a Friend S. S. Gershtein 302

Chapter 8 Anatoly Larkin 310

Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin 313

My Brother Tolya Alexander I. Larkin 318

Glimpses of Tolya Larkin V. G. Vaks 328

A Student's Memories Yuri Ovchinnikov 332

He Lived Among Us V. L. Pokrovsky 336

Remembering Larkin Andrei Varlamov 344

Tolya Larkin at the Institute M. Shifman 347

Chapter 9 Alexei Anselm 352

Alexei Andreevich Anselm D. I. Diakonov 355

Alyosha and I were Close Friends A. M. Polyakov 362

Memoirs Ludmila Anselm 367

Chapter 10 Time and. Destinies 378

Snapshots from the 1950s Yuri F. Orlov 381

Bruno Pontecorvo: Recollections and Reflections S. S. Gershtein 399

ITEP Theory Department: Glimpses M. Shifman 428

Living in Truth: V. N. Gribov and the Post-War Generation of Soviet Physics Pál Nyíri Joana Breidenbach 437

Part II

Chapter 11 Some Details for Experts 448

Great Universalist of the 20th Century S. S. Gershtein 451

Landau and Modern Physics V. L. Pokrovsky 465

Strong Interactions at High Energies in the Reggeon Approach K. G. Boreskov A. B. Kaidalov O. V. Kancheli 488

Anselm's Discovery of the Gross-Neveu Model in 1958 M. Shifman 524

A Model of Field Theory with Nonvanishing Renormalized Charge A. A. Anselm 526

Index 535