Download or read book Physicists: Epoch And Personalities written by Evgenii L'vovich L Feinberg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of memoirs on famous Soviet physicists of the 20th century, such as Tamm, Vavilov, Sakharov, Landau and others. The memoirs were originally written in Russian by E L Feinberg. The narrative is situated within a remarkably well-described historical, cultural and social context. Of special interest are the chapters devoted to Soviet and German atomic projects.