PHYSICISTS: EPOCH & PERSONALITIES

“The book contains a collection of memoirs on the famous Soviet scientists Mandelstam, Tamm, Sakharov, Vavilov, Leontovich, Mintz and Landau. The portraits are strongly situated within the political, cultural and social context. They are insofar very authentic as the author was close to some of the persons he wrote about and could observe others long enough to understand their behavior.”