Bøker av Alexander Pechenkin

This biography of Soviet physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam describes his contributions to physics and technology as well as discusses the scientific community which formed around him. It features extensive use of hitherto unpublished archival material.

Further, it reconstructs Mandelstam's philosophy of science and his approach to the social and ethical function of science and science education based on his fundamental writings and lecture notes.

This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American and Russian approaches to the development of chemistry.