The Unusual Career Of The Famous Soviet Physicist Peter Kapitza Was Divided Between Cambridge And Moscow. In Cambridge He Was A Protegé Of Rutherford And While Studying There He Opened Up A New Area Of Research In Magnetism And Low Temperature Physics. However, In 1934, During A Summer Visit To The Soviet Union, Kapitza Was Prevented From Returning To Cambridge And Remained In Moscow For The Rest Of His Long Life. In Spite Of Many Ups And Downs And Considerable Difficulties In His Relations With Top Political Figures In The Kremlin, He Continued To Enhance His Scientific Reputation And Late In Life Was Awarded The Nobel Prize. After An Introductory Biographical Memoir, The Greater Part Of The Book Consists Of Extracts From The Numerous Letters Kapitza Wrote Throughout His Life, Letters Which Are Distinguished By Their Eloquence, The Originality Of His Opinions And His Forthrightness. His Very Interesting Correspondence With Rutherford And Above All His Many Letters To Top Political Figures In The Soviet Union Such As Molotov, Stalin And Khrushchev On Questions Of Scientific And Industrial Policy Are All Included In This Unique Document. Together They Provide A Rounded Picture Of A Remarkable Personality Who Contributed So Much To The Scientific And Cultural Life Of Both England And The Soviet Union. This Fascinating Book Is Illustrated With An Impressive Collection Of Historical Photographs And Should Be Of Interest To Science Historians, To Low Temperature Physicists And To `sovietologists', But Above All The Book Should Appeal To The General Reader For Its Human Interest. Some Of The Letters Reveal His Emotional Reactions To The Major Blows He Had To Suffer On Several Occasions, While Others Provide Penetrating And Often Amusing Comments On English Life And Institutions As Seen By A Russian, And On Soviet Life From The Inside.

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Kaptiza in Cambridge and Moscow : life and letters of a Russian physicist

compiled and edited by J.W. Boag, P.E. Rubinin, D. Shoenberg

P L Kapit︠s︡a; J W Boag; P E Rubinin; D Shoenberg

Петр Леонидович Капица; Petr Leonidovich Kapit͡sa

J. W. Boag, P. E. Rubinin, P. L. Kapit͡sa

Boag, J. W., Rubinin, P. E.

Капица, П. Л. 1894-1984

Pyotr Kapitsa

North-Holland; Sole distributers for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.

North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.

Elsevier Science Ltd

Aspen Publishers

Amsterdam

United States, United States of America

North Holland, 1990

Burlington, 2012

October 1, 1990

December 1990

PS, 1990

lg1050084

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"Sources and previous publications of Kapitza's letters": p. viii-ix.
Includes index.

Content:
Front Matter , Page iii
Copyright , Page iv
Preface , Pages v-vii
Sources and previous publications of Kapitza's letters , Pages viii-ix
Illustrations , Pages xiii-xvi
Sources of illustrations , Pages xvi-xvii
1 - Biographical introduction , Pages 1-84,86
2 - Some early letters (1913–1920) , Pages 87-108,110
3 - Letters to his mother (1921–1927) , Pages 111-208
4 - Letters from Moscow to Anna Kapitza in Cambridge (1934–1935) , Pages 209-256
5 - Correspondence with Rutherford (1921–1937) , Pages 257-312
6 - Letters to the Kremlin (1929–1980) , Pages 313-420
Name Index , Pages 421-429

Compiled And Edited By J.w. Boag, P.e. Rubinin, D. Shoenberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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