About Science, Myself and Others

 Content: Part I  1 What problems of physics and astrophysics seem now to be especially important and interesting at the beginning of the 21st century?  2Radiation by uniformly moving sources (Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, Doppler effect in a medium, transition radiation, and other phenomena)  3 On the birth and development of cosmic-ray astrophysics  4 Remarks on my work in radio astronomy  5 Some remarks on ferroelectricity, soft modes and related problems 6 Superconductivity: the day before yesterday - yesterday -today - tomorrow  7 Superconductivity and superfluidity (what was done and what was not)  Part II  8 A long, arduous, and varied life:on the 100th anniversary of the birthday ofIgor Evgenevich Tamm  9 'Singing' electrons 10 Lev Davidovich Landau - the physicist and the man 11 Physics, the 'Course', and life: on the 80th anniversary of Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz 12 In memory of David Abramovich Kirzhnits  13 About Efim Fradkin 14 In memory of Vitya Shvartsman  15 In memory of Vadim Sidur 16 About Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov  17 Notes of an amateur astrophysicist 18 The business of bygone days: reminiscences of my participation in the "atomic project" 19 How I became a theoretical physicist and, in general about myself...  Part III  20 Answers to the Physics World's MilleniumsSurvey questionnaire  21 Why Soviet scientists did not always get the Nobel Prizes they deserved 22 Once more about the history of the discovery of combinational light scattering  23 Back to the Middle Ages - where soothsayers, wizards, and witnesses of miracles, all through television and newspapers, lead us  24 Should we fight pseudoscience?  25 What is happening to us?  26 Communists again stand as the paramount menace for Russia and entire world 27 Juridical sentence upon bolshevik communism  28 Inner weakness (what has been forgotten by Academician Zhores Alferov)  29 I do not Understand these so-called patriots (a self-interview)  30 Answers to several questions  31 Reason and faith: some remarks concerning the encyclical letter Fides et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II  32 Science and religion in the modern world 33 Once again about science and religion in the modern world 34 Russia must not slide into a slough of clericalism 35 International Humanist Movement and Manifesto 2000  Curriculum vitae of Vitaly L Ginzburg