The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov

Pioneer of Soviet Cryogenics
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-10156-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 351 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Springer Biographies

This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937).  From 1926 to 1930 Shubnikov worked in Leiden where he was the co-discoverer of the Shubnikov-De Haas effect. After his return to the Soviet Union he founded in Kharkov in Ukraine the first low-temperature laboratory in the Soviet Union, which in a very short time became the foremost physics institute in the country and among other things led to the discovery of type-II superconductivity. In August 1937 Shubnikov, together with many of his colleagues, was arrested and shot early in November 1937. This gripping story gives deep insights into the pioneering work of Soviet physicists before the Second World War, as well as providing much previously unpublished information about their brutal treatment at the hands of the Stalinist regime.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reinders, L. J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Physik unter extremen Bedingungen (Vakuum, Hohe Drücke)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-  Shubnikov’s early years in St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad.- Shubnikov’s scientific work in Leningrad; papers with Obreimov.- Shubnikov in Leiden.- Shubnikov's Scientific work in Leiden: Shubnikov–de Haas effect.- Founding of the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute in Kharkov.-  History of UFTI in the thirties.-  Shubnikov’s scientific work at UFTI.-  Repression at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute.- The UFTI Affair: The case of Weissberg and Weisselberg.- The UFTI Affair: The case of Shubnikov, Rozenkevich and Gorsky.- The UFTI Affair: Other repressed UFTI physicists.- The Landau-Korets-Rumer Case.- Shubnikov’s rehabilitation.-  Afterword.- Appendix 1: Shubnikov’s statement on research in cryogenics.- Appendix 2: Interrogations of members of the UFTI staff.- Appendix 3: Documents of the case of Shubnikov, Rozenkevich and Gorsky.- Appendix 4: The rehabilitation of Shubnikov, Rozenkevich and Gorsky.- List of Shubnikov’s publications.- Abbreviations.- Timeline of Shubnikov's life.

Über Autor(innen)

L. J. Reinders has had an active career in high-energy physics, earning a PhD from Utrecht University in 1976 and working as a post-doc at various research centres in Europe and Japan until 1988, when he switched to law and legal translation. In this book he combines his earlier expertise as a physicist with his long-standing interest in Russian culture and science.