My lifelong road to light : outstanding Soviet scientists / L.V. Levshin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Outstanding Soviet scientistsPublication details: Moscow, USSR : Mir Publishers, c1989.Description: 264 pages, [32] pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 5030002650
Uniform titles:
  • Svet--moe prizvanie. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC 16 .V3 L4213 1989
Contents:
Roots -- 'My brother who had been with me so long' -- The hearth -- At Moscow University -- Ensign Vavilov -- The beginning -- The man who saw the quanta of light -- The cold light -- The acquaintance with German physics -- The scientific school -- A gift for organizing -- The Vavilove-Cherenkov effect -- The holy war -- At the head of soviet sciences -- The founder of non-linear optics -- 'Looking back on the needs of the motherland' -- 'The history of science is required by all...' -- Scientific knowledge for the people -- The memory of mankind -- Major dates of S. I. Vavilov's life and activity.
Summary: "This book is about Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, one of the most eminent physicists of the century. Sergei Vavilov contributed so greatly to the development and organization of science that he is considered on of the founders of Soviet physics. His remarkable achievements in physical optics earned him the USSR State Prize on four separate occasions. He was President of the USSR Academy of Science for many years. The book is written by Professor Leanoid Vadimovich Levshin, a great authority on luminescence. Indeed his interest in this topic was inspired by Sergei Vavilov himself." -- from book coverSummary: 'Nikolai Vavilov was born in 1887. He immortalized his name with his most outstanding research in the field of botany, genetics, and plant growing. he is by right considered to be the creator of the scientific foundation s of selection, the study of pertaining to the world centres [sic] as regards the origin of cultivated plants and their geographical distribution. He was one of the first organizers and those who stood at the head of the biological and agricultural science in his country. Nikolai's teacher, Academician Dmitri Nikolayevich Pryanishnikov, when speaking of his pupil, said, "Nikolai Ivanovich is a genius and the only thing that stops us from acknowledging this fact is that he happens to be out contemporary."' -- from introduction
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Translation of: Svet--moe prizvanie.

Revised from the 1987 Russian edition.

This text contains plates showing portraits of S. I. Vavilov, events from his life, and images associated with Soviet scientific institutions.

This resource includes a timeline of significant events in the life of S. I. Vavilov, from 1891-1967.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264).

Roots -- 'My brother who had been with me so long' -- The hearth -- At Moscow University -- Ensign Vavilov -- The beginning -- The man who saw the quanta of light -- The cold light -- The acquaintance with German physics -- The scientific school -- A gift for organizing -- The Vavilove-Cherenkov effect -- The holy war -- At the head of soviet sciences -- The founder of non-linear optics -- 'Looking back on the needs of the motherland' -- 'The history of science is required by all...' -- Scientific knowledge for the people -- The memory of mankind -- Major dates of S. I. Vavilov's life and activity.

"This book is about Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, one of the most eminent physicists of the century. Sergei Vavilov contributed so greatly to the development and organization of science that he is considered on of the founders of Soviet physics. His remarkable achievements in physical optics earned him the USSR State Prize on four separate occasions. He was President of the USSR Academy of Science for many years. The book is written by Professor Leanoid Vadimovich Levshin, a great authority on luminescence. Indeed his interest in this topic was inspired by Sergei Vavilov himself." -- from book cover

'Nikolai Vavilov was born in 1887. He immortalized his name with his most outstanding research in the field of botany, genetics, and plant growing. he is by right considered to be the creator of the scientific foundation s of selection, the study of pertaining to the world centres [sic] as regards the origin of cultivated plants and their geographical distribution. He was one of the first organizers and those who stood at the head of the biological and agricultural science in his country. Nikolai's teacher, Academician Dmitri Nikolayevich Pryanishnikov, when speaking of his pupil, said, "Nikolai Ivanovich is a genius and the only thing that stops us from acknowledging this fact is that he happens to be out contemporary."' -- from introduction

Translated from Russian into English.

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