About Science, Myself and Others

Vitaly L. Ginzburg

549 pages, parution le 19/11/2004

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In About Science, Myself and Others, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids, provides an insight into modem physics, the lives and works of other prominent physicists he has known and 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 society. Part one also includes six review articles devoted to those areas of physics to which V L Ginzburg made a considerable contribution, including superconductivity and superfluidity. Part two comprises twelve articles on Professor Ginzburg's recollections of the lives and works of several prominent physicists, including his own. The third part of the book is a collection of articles which provide the author's personal views on a range of wider topics.

Taken together the collection of articles combine to create a readable review of physics, its philosophy and key players in its modern development in the 20^th century, and will be of interest to professional scientists and non-scientists alike.

L'auteur - Vitaly L. Ginzburg

V L Ginzburg, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow

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Part I
- What problems of physics and astrophysics seem now to be especially important and interesting at the beginning of the 21st century?
- Radiation by uniformly moving sources (Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, Doppler effect in a medium, transition radiation, and other phenomena)
- On the birth and development of cosmic-ray astrophysics
- Remarks on my work in radio astronomy
- Some remarks on ferroelectricity, soft modes and related problems
- Superconductivity: the day before yesterday - yesterday -today - tomorrow
- Superconductivity and superfluidity (what was done and what was not)
Part II
- A long, arduous, and varied life:on the 100^th anniversary of the birthday ofIgor Evgenevich Tamm
- 'Singing' electrons
- Lev Davidovich Landau - the physicist and the man
- Physics, the 'Course', and life: on the 80th anniversary of Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz
- In memory of David Abramovich Kirzhnits
- About Efim Fradkin
- In memory of Vitya Shvartsman
- In memory of Vadim Sidur
- About Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov
- Notes of an amateur astrophysicist
- The business of bygone days: reminiscences of my participation in the "atomic project"
- How I became a theoretical physicist and, in general about myself...
Part III
- Answers to the Physics World's MilleniumsSurvey questionnaire
- Why Soviet scientists did not always get the Nobel Prizes they deserved
- Once more about the history of the discovery of combinational light scattering
- Back to the Middle Ages - where soothsayers, wizards, and witnesses of miracles, all through television and newspapers, lead us
- Should we fight pseudoscience?
- What is happening to us?
- Communists again stand as the paramount menace for Russia and entire world
- Juridical sentence upon bolshevik communism
- Inner weakness (what has been forgotten by Academician Zhores Alferov)
- I do not Understand these so-called patriots (a self-interview)
- Answers to several questions
- Reason and faith: some remarks concerning the encyclical letter Fides et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II
- Science and religion in the modern world
- Once again about science and religion in the modern world
- Russia must not slide into a slough of clericalism
- International Humanist Movement and Manifesto 2000
- Curriculum vitae of Vitaly L Ginzburg

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Auteur(s)	Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Parution	19/11/2004
Nb. de pages	549
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1070g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750309929
ISBN13	978-0-7503-0992-9