Memoirs
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394537408 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 773 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Five Stars" according to Emilio J. López. Excellent!!!. THE LIFE STORY OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE-WINNING SCIENTIST Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist, who helped design the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, but was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. He was arrested in 1980 following his public protests against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, and sent to "internal exile" for six years. He wrote in the Preface to this 1990 book, "I hope that my memoirs will appeal to a fairly wide audience because of the extraordinary turns my lif. "Black comedy" according to Gary. This book bordered on the surreal due to Sakharov's irony free style. He would describe some craziness involving KGB interference in his life or Soviet life in general and then suddenly break off to describe theoretical quantum physics for three pages. This juxtaposition between the irrational and rational makes the book unexpectedly comic at times.
With his death last December, these Memoirs become timely testimony to his life, particularly his development, his motivations, and the influences shaping his actions. . From Library Journal Sakharov was at once the brilliant physicist who created the hydrogen bomb and the humanitarian who won the Nobel Peace Prize. His account of Soviet nuclear testing and life among the privileged but closeted nuclear research community is compelling. Once he'd witnessed the biological effects of radiation, Sakhar
Personal, scientific and political memoirs by the Soviet scientist, Nobel Prize-winner and human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov. In 1986 Sakharov was in his sixth year of exile, when Gorbachev welcomed him back to Moscow and to an active role in perestroika.