Under The Spell Of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies When Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destinies

This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School -- Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm -- are being published in English for the first time. The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the "Iron Curtain" which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR. Readership: Students and teachers of physics in high schools and colleges. Ch. 1. Lev Landau. Lev Davidovich Landau / Boris Ioffe -- Landau as I knew him / S.S. Gershtein -- ch. 2. Arkady Migdal. Arkady Benediktovich Migdal / N.O. Agasyan [und weitere] -- Remembering AB / S.T. Belyayev -- A.B. Migdal in my life / Anatoly Larkin -- Memories of A.B. Migdal / V.A. Khodel -- Memories of AB / V.G. Vaks -- Grand master / Alexander Polyakov -- ch. 3. Yakov Zeldovich. On the path towards universal weak interaction / S.S. Gershtein -- A simple love story / Anna Shiryaeva -- ch. 4. Yakov Smorodinsky. Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky / Noemi Smorodinskaya -- Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky at Leningrad State University / I.V. Komarov -- About hydrotechnical laboratory, Professor Smorodinsky, and nucleon-nucleon scattering / R.M. Ryndin -- Remembering Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky / F. Calogero -- Remembering Yakov Abramovich / A. Frenkel -- Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky and his influence on my life / P. Winternitz -- Yakov Abramovich as I remember him / Julia Nyíri -- About Yakov Abramovich / Pál Nyíri -- ch. 5. Karen Ter-Martirosyan. Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan -- Karen Avetovich / M. Shifman -- K.A. Ter-Martirosyan as I remember him / A.V. Smilga -- Memories of Karen Avetovich / Roman Nevzorov -- A few lines about Karen / Noemi Smorodinskaya -- ch. 6. David Kirzhnits. David Abramovich Kirzhnits / B.M. Bolotovsky [und weitere] -- Memoirs / David Kirzhnits -- Memories of David Kirzhnits / B.M. Bolotovsky -- David Abramovich / A.D. Linde -- ch. 7. Vladimir Gribov. Vladimir Naumovich Gribov: introduction -- Vladimir Naumovich Gribov / A. Frenkel -- V.N. Gribov: 1930-1997 / Yuri Dokshitzer -- On V.N. Gribov / B.L. Ioffe -- In memory of a friend / S.S. Gershtein -- ch. 8. Anatoly Larkin. Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin -- My brother Tolya / Alexander I. Larkin -- Glimpses of Tolya Larkin / V.G. Vaks -- A student's memories / Yuri Ovchinnikov -- He lived among us / V.L. Pokrovsky -- Remembering Larkin / Andrei Varlamov -- Tolya Larkin at the institute / M. Shifman -- ch. 9. Alexei Anselm. Alexei Andreevich Anselm / D.I. Diakonov -- Alyosha and I were close friends / A.M. Polyakov -- Memoirs / Ludmila Anselm -- ch. 10. Time and destinies. Snapshots from the 1950s / Yuri F. Orlov -- Bruno Pontecorvo: recollections and reflections / S.S. Gershtein -- ITEP Theory Department: glimpses / M. Shifman -- Living in truth: V.N. Gribov and the post-war generation of Soviet physics / Pál Nyíri and Joana Breidenbach -- ch. 11. Some details for experts. Great universalist of the 20th century / S.S. Gershtein -- Landau and modern physics / V.L. Pokrovsky -- Strong interactions at high energies in the Reggeon approach / K.G. Boreskov, A.B. Kaidalov, and O.V. Kancheli -- Anselm's discovery of the Gross-Neveu model in 1958 / M. Shifman -- A model of field theory with nonvanishing renormalized charge / A.A. Anselm A Few Lines about Karen Noemi SmorodinskayaChapter 6: David Kirzhnits; David Abramovich Kirzhnits B. M. Bolotovsky, Yu. M. Bruk, V. L. Ginzburg, V. I. Ritus, and G. V. Shpatakovskaya; Memoirs David Kirzhnits; A little about my parents; Where the city of Chelyabinsk-40 will rise; Extension school; The "Collective Farmer" radio; German radio; Conversations by the radio; The Thirties; The East Ural Radioactive Trace; Memories of David Kirzhnits B. M. Bolotovsky; David Abramovich A. D. Linde; Chapter 7: Vladimir Gribov; Vladimir Naumovich Gribov: Introduction; Vladimir Naumovich Gribov A. Frenkel About Hydrotechnical Laboratory, Professor Smorodinsky, and Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering R. M. RyndinRemembering Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky F. Calogero; References; Remembering Yakov Abramovich A. Frenkel; Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky and His Influence on My Life P. Winternitz; References; Yakov Abramovich as I Remember Him Julia Nyıri; References; About Yakov Abramovich Pal Nyıri; Chapter 5: Karen Ter-Martirosyan; Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan; Karen Avetovich M. Shifman; Reference; K. A. Ter-Martirosyan as I Remember Him A. V. Smilga; Memories of Karen Avetovich Roman Nevzorov This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School - Landau, Anselm, Gribov, Zeldovich, Kirzhnits, Migdal, Ter-Martirosyan and Larkin - are being published in English for the first time. The main goal is to acquaint readers with the life and work of outstanding Soviet physicists who, to a large extent, shaped theoretical physics in the 1950s-70s. Many intriguing details have remained unknown beyond the "Iron Curtain" which was dismantled only with the fall of the USSR V. N. Gribov: 1930-1997 Yuri DokshitzerReference; On V. N. Gribov B. L. Ioffe; In Memory of a Friend S. S. Gershtein; Chapter 8: Anatoly Larkin; Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin; References; My Brother Tolya Alexander I. Larkin; Tolya's Parents and Teachers; Tolya's remarks and jokes; Remarks of his students, friends, and colleagues; Our joint work began; Larkin-Fest; Anatoly Larkin's talk at Larkin-Fest; Albert Schmid. Anatoly Larkin's Poster; Sources; Glimpses of Tolya Larkin V. G. Vaks; A Student's Memories Yuri Ovchinnikov; He Lived Among Us V. L. Pokrovsky; References Memories of A. B. Migdal V. A. KhodelMemories of AB V. G. Vaks; Grand Master Alexander Polyakov; Chapter 3: Yakov Zeldovich; On the Path Towards Universal Weak Interaction S. S. Gershtein; Afterword 1993; Afterword 2006; A Simple Love Story Anna Shiryaeva; Mother and Father; "Scat" and the Family Name; Brothers and Sisters, Children and Grandchildren; Chapter 4: Yakov Smorodinsky; Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky Noemi Smorodinskaya; Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky at Leningrad State University I. V. Komarov; References