Akhiezer, Alexander Ilich on 1995 November-December: in Ukrainian.
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| Title: | Akhiezer, Alexander Ilich on 1995 November-December: in Ukrainian. |
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| Name(s): |
Akhiezer, A. I. (Aleksandr Ilʹich), 1911-2000 Ranyuk, Yuri, interviewer. |
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| Type of Resource: | mixed material | |
| Genre: | Oral histories. | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Created: | 1995 | |
| Extent: |
Transcript: 44 pages. Audio recording: 3 cassettes. |
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| Abstract/Description: | In this interview academician Akhiezer discusses his work at the Ukranian (later Kharkiv) Physico-Technical Institute of the Ukranian Academy of Sciences (1934-present); his acquaintance with Lev Landau in 1934; his successful passing of theoretical minimum examinations; scientist Lev Rozenkevitch, Isaak Pomeranchuk, and Fritz Hautermans; his first publications. Also describes teaching at the Ukrainian Physico-Technical institute, the Polytechnical Institute, and the University; the strike at the University; Landau's displacement to Moscow; Petr Kapitza, and Abram Ioffe. Akhiezer discusses his role as head of the Institute's theoretical department; gives summary of pre World War II investigations; witch hunting; F. Lange; World War II work, Laboratory #1 and participation in Soviet atomic project; electron accelerators; work at the Kurchatov Institute, university relations and pupils; Landau again, his illness and year in prison. Finally, Akhiezer's current investigations and life. | |
| Note(s): |
Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes. Interview was conducted during November-December 1995 by Yuri Ranyuk. This interview was conducted as part of a series of oral histories with senior physicists on the origin and development of physics in Ukraine. The subject matter runs from pioneering nuclear disintigration experiments done in 1932 through the future development of nuclear, plasma, theoretical, material, low temperature, and other physics in the former Soviet Union (now Ukraine). Digital master copy saved to external hard drive, 2013. Loan copies may be made from digital copy. Physicist (theoretical). Head of theoretical department of Ukrainian Physico-Technical insitute (1937-1990). In Ukrainian. |
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| Subject(s): |
Akhiezer, A. I. (Aleksandr Ilʹich), 1911-2000 Houtermans, F. G. (Friedrich Georg), 1903- Ioffe, A. F. (Abram Fedorovich), 1880-1960 Kapit︠s︡a, P. L. (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984 Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968 Lange, F Pomeranchuk, I. (Isaak), 1915-1966 Rozenkevich, Lev Kharʹkovskiĭ fiziko-tekhnicheskiĭ institut Kyïvsʹkyĭ politekhnichnyĭ instytut Atomic bomb -- Soviet Union Electron accelerators Physicists -- Soviet Union Physicists -- Ukraine Physics -- Ukraine Prison sentences World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Science |
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| Library Classification: | OH 4400 | |
| Held by: | American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA | |
| Restrictions on Access: |
In footnotes or endnotes please cite AIP interviews like this: Interview of Alexander Ilich Akhiezer by Yuri Ranyuk on 1995 November-December, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla:266424 Oral history interview may be read by any researcher with an approved access application on file, but copies and quotes may not be made, except with the written permission of the Institute. |
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