Physics in a Mad World by Shifman M. Manteith James

Author:Shifman, M.,Manteith, James
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789814619318
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: 2016-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Figure 35. This snapshot was made on March 31, 1947. The poster on the left reads: “We want coal, we want bread.”

References

1.F. Beck and W. Godin, Russian Purge and the Extraction of Confession, (Hurst & Blackett, London, 1951); American edition: The Viking Press, New York, 1951.

2.Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, Hexensabbat, (Frankfurt, Frankfurter Hefte, 1951, in German), English translation: Alexander Weissberg, The Accused, (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1951).

3.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956. The first “samizdat publications” in Russian circulated in 1967-1968; English translation: Harper & Row, 1974 and 1975.

4.Aglaya Gorman, A Choice Between Two Evils, (Xlibris, 2006); see also the letter from Aglaya Gorman to Charlotte Houtermans, “In memory of Professor Dr. F. Houtermans,” Giovanna Fjelstad’s family archive.

5.Victor Frenkel, Professor Friedrich Houtermans: Works, Life, Fate, (A. F. Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, 1997), in Russian.

6.E. Amaldi, The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (Springer, Berlin, 2013), Eds. Saverio Braccini, Antonio Ereditato, and Paola Scampoli.

7.Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales. The first “samizdat publications” in Russian circulated in 1960-1962; English translation: Penguin, 20th Century Classics, 1995.

8.K. Shteppa’s most important publications are “Imprisoned by Communism,” Novy Zhurnal, vol. 57, New York, 1959, in Russian; “Ezhovshchina,” Novy Zhurnal, vol. 58, New York, 1959 (reprinted in [10]), in Russian; A Syllabus on Soviet Communism: a Compilation From the Commentaries on Soviet Development Prepared for Radio Liberty, 1951-1959, (New York, American Committee for Liberation, 1960); Russian Historians and the Soviet State, (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1962).

9.I. V. Verba, Kost Shteppa, Parts 1 and 2, Ukrainian Historical Journal, 1999, No 3, pp. 97-111 and No4, pp. 98-114, in Ukrainian; Kost Shteppa as Orientalist, in Ukrainian, in the Collection The World of the Orient, dedicated to 2000 years of Christianity, Kiev, 2001; I. V. Verba and M. O. Samofalov, Historian Kost Shteppa: The Man, the Scholar and the Teacher, (Kiev, 2010); Yuri Raniuk, “Ukrainian Historian Shteppa and German Physicist Houter-mans,” Based on the K. F. Shteppa dossier, Security Service of Ukraine, No 49863, in Collection of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 2000.

10. A Story of Professor Konstantin Shteppa’s Family, Ed. A.V. Popov, (Moscow, Rusaki, 2003), in Russian.

11. K. Shteppa and F. Houtermans, Purge in Russia, translated from English by Yuri Raniuk, (Kharkov, Folio, 2000).

12. Bakhmeteff Archive, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd4078079/

13. Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007).

14. Yuri Raniuk, Private communication, April 24, 2015.

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146See page 58, footnote 37.

147Stefan Rozental (1903-1994) was a nuclear physicist and Niels Bohr’s “right hand” for fifteen years, after Hendrik Anthony Kramers and Léon Rosenfeld.

148This epigraph represents two lines from a popular song written by Vassily Lebedev-Kumach (lyrics) and Isaac Dunaevsky (music) in 1936, just before the beginning of Great Terror.

149The excerpts quoted are from [1], pages 95-98, 129, and 134 of the American Edition.

150Now known under his real name of Togliatti. –Beck and Godin

151See footnote 46 on pp. 135-136.

152Edoardo Amaldi was among those few who knew the names of the authors from the very beginning, from Fritz Houtermans himself. However, Amaldi’s book [6] was published only in 2013, sixteen years after Frenkel’s publication.

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