The e-book is an improved autobiography of the recognized theoretical physicist Isaak Khalatnikov. He labored including L.D. Landau on the Institute for actual difficulties lead by means of P.L. Kapitza. he's the co-author of L.D. Landau in a couple of vital works. They labored jointly within the body of the so-called Nuclear Bomb venture. After the dying of L.D. Landau, I.M. Khalatnikov initiated the institution of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, named in honour of L.D. Landau, in the USSR Academy of Sciences. He headed this institute from the start as its Director. The institute inherited just about all traditions of the Landau clinical university and performed a sought after position within the improvement of theoretical physics. So, it is a tale approximately how the institute was once created, the way it labored, and concerning the lifetime of the physicists within the "golden age" of the Soviet technological know-how. A separate bankruptcy is dedicated to today´s lifetime of the institute and the younger iteration of physicists operating now in science.

It is an traditionally fascinating booklet at the improvement of Soviet and Russian technological know-how and provides the history of the Soviet nuclear bomb application within the chilly struggle age. In warfare occasions, Khalatnikov was once a primary of the army employees of nuclear study. He writes concerning the inner stipulations of Soviet society, the best way of working of the Soviet specialists and methods for scientists to have interaction with them. It supplies many fascinating insights into the improvement of superconductivity and superfluidity. The ebook is written by means of the main skilled and top proficient individual one of the few residing Russian scientists within the setting of Landau. Many tales of the booklet have been by no means released ahead of and thought of as "top secret".