Life for science. Lomonosov, Franklin, Rutherford, Langeven. 2nd edition, stereotypical. Kapitsa P.L.

This book contains four essays of the academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences P. L. Kapitsa about the life and work of outstanding figures of world science: Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov (1711–1765), Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) and fields of Lanzhenen (1872–1946). They are a transformed to the author of the transcript of performances in different years.

We were talking about Lomonosov at a meeting of the Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, held on November 17, 1961 at the Institute of Physical Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The essay on Franklin is based on a performance at the solemn meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the occasion of the 250th birthday of Franklin, held in the Assembly Hall of Moscow State University on January 17, 1956. Memories of Professor Rutherford were based on a report on November 14, 1937, shortly after Death of Rutherford, at the Institute of Physical Chemistry named after N. D. Zelinsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR. With a report on Lanzheven P. L. Kapitsa, he made a joint meeting of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Friendship Society, dedicated to the 85th birthday of Lanzheven on January 23, 1957

the scientific achievements of Lomonosov, Franklin, Rutherford and Lanzhaven and their role in scientific progress are considered in the light of later achievements in the relevant areas of physics.

The book is recommended for a wide circle of readers who are interested in the life and work of the great scientists.