The Physics of a Lifetime: Reflections on the Problems and Personalities of 20th Century Physics

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What Problems of Physics and Astrophysics Seem Now to Be Especially Important and Interesting?....Pages 3-148
What Problems of Physics and Astrophysics Seem Now to Be Especially Important and Interesting (Thirty Years Later, Already on the Verge of the 21st Century)?....Pages 149-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
How Does Science Develop? Remarks on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by T. Kuhn....Pages 201-216
Who Created the Theory of Relativity and How Was It Developed? A Review with a Preamble and a Commentary....Pages 217-240
Does Astronomy Need ‘New Physics’?....Pages 241-258
Physical Laws and Extraterrestrial Civilizations....Pages 259-264
Wide Scope and Up-to-Date Information as a Precondition of Successful Research....Pages 265-268
Physics Stays Young. A Way of Answering the Questionnaire in Nauka i Zhizn ’ Magazine....Pages 269-276
On Popular Science and More....Pages 277-284
Notes on the Occasion of My Jubilee....Pages 285-307
A Scientific Autobiography — an Attempt....Pages 309-347
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
About Igor Evgenevich Tamm....Pages 351-359
A Piece of Advice Given by Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam....Pages 361-364
On the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Nikolai Dmitrievich Papaleksi....Pages 365-366
About Lev Davidovich Landau....Pages 367-384
To the Memory of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov....Pages 385-388
About Aleksandr Lvovich Mints....Pages 389-394
In Commemoration of Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov....Pages 395-396
A Story of Two Directors....Pages 397-402
To the Memory of Ilya Mikhailovich Frank....Pages 403-410
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
About Grigorii Samuilovich Landsberg....Pages 411-417
To the Memory of Evgenii Konstantinovich Zavoiskii....Pages 419-421
About Matvei Samsonovich Rabinovich....Pages 423-424
Mstislav Vsevoldovich Keldysh (A Detached View)....Pages 425-427
About Albert Einstein....Pages 429-431
In Memory of Niels Bohr....Pages 433-442
About Richard Feynman — a Remarkable Physicist and a Wonderful Man....Pages 443-449
John Bardeen and the Theory of Superconductivity....Pages 451-456
On High-Energy Astrophysics (On the 80th Birthday of Jan Oort)....Pages 457-469
The Sakharov Phenomenon....Pages 471-506
Back Matter....Pages 507-514