Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam Research, Teaching, Life /

• Main Author: Pechenkin, Alexander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Physics.; Science education.; Quantum physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Nature.; Environment.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Quantum Physics.; Science Education.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

This biography of the famous Soviet physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1889-1944), who became a Professor at Moscow State University in 1925, describes his contributions to both physics and technology, as well as discussing the scientific community which formed around him, usually called the Ma...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by E.P.Velikhov
• Introduction
• Youth and Strasbourg years
• The Strasbourg years: radio engineering
• The Strasbourg years: optics
• The years of traveling (1914-1925)
• Moscow State University (1925-1935)
• Research in optics (Odessa – Moscow)
• The Mandelstam school: the early steps and results
• The Mandelstam’s school: the theory of non-linear oscillations
• Moscow State University and the Academy of Sciences
• Borovoe and the last year in Moscow
• The Mandelstam operationalism
• The Mandelstam interpretation of quantum mechanics 1930-1940.