The circle of Landau and Lifshitsa. Gorobets B.S.

This book is the third in the Landau Circle in the trilogy (the first book is the life of a genius, the second - “Physics of War and Peace”). She continues the story of the academician L. D. Landau (1908-1968), the Nobel Prize laureate, the Lenin and three Stalinist awards. The book is 12 chapters. They include essays about the main characters-scientists, students and/or contemporaries of Landau, who were closely in contact with him. This is E. M. and I. M. Lifshitsa, A. S. Kommanyts, A. B. Midal, V. L. Ginzburg, A. A. Abrikosov, I. M. Khalatnikov, Ya. B. Zeldovich, P. L. Kapitsa, A. I. Leipunsky, B. S. Fursov (Dean of the Physics and Fores of Moscow State University), M. A. Sryrikovich (energy). Many other outstanding scientists participate in the events. This is, in particular, N. Bor, I. E. Tamm, I. G. Petrovsky, R. 3. Sagdeev, L. A. Artsimovich, I. Ya. Pomeranchuk, V. G. Levin, E. L. Fainberg , V. Ya. Fainberg, V.P. Silin, Yu. L. Klimontovich, A. A. Rukhadze and others, represented by bright episodes and characteristics in the gallery of essays and portraits. The application has a lecture by E. M. Lifshitsa "L. D. Landau - scientist, teacher, man ”, letter of P. L. Kapitsa I.V. Stalin (full text), etc.

for a wide range of readers interested in the history of physics of the 20th century.