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ANDREI DMITRIEVICH SAKHAROV was born on May 21, 1921, in Moscow, into "a cultured and close family," as he wrote in the introduction to the collection of his articles issued in the West in 1974. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
magnetic cumulation, passive mesons, magnetic thermonuclear reactor, muon catalysis, muonic molecule, metric elasticity, superstrong magnetic fields, induced gravitation, theoretical department, mathematics circle, baryon asymmetry, flux compression, controlled thermonuclear fusion, initial magnetic field, toroidal magnetic field, spacetime curvature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Andrei Dmitrievich, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Soviet Union, Lebedev Institute, Andrei Sakharov, Lebedev Physical Institute, New York, Elena Georgievna, Igor Evgenievich, United States, Moscow State University, Peaceful Coexistence, Academician Sakharov, Elena Bonner, Big Bang, Klavdia Alekseyevna, Kurchatov Institute, Nobel Peace Prize, Edward Teller, Nobel Prize, Zhurnal Eksperimental'noi, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, Merab Konstantinovich, Sakharov's Memoirs New!
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ANDREI DMITRIEVICH SAKHAROV was born on May 21, 1921, in Moscow, into "a cultured and close family," as he wrote in the introduction to the collection of his articles issued in the West in 1974. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
magnetic cumulation, passive mesons, magnetic thermonuclear reactor, muon catalysis, muonic molecule, metric elasticity, superstrong magnetic fields, induced gravitation, theoretical department, mathematics circle, baryon asymmetry, flux compression, controlled thermonuclear fusion, initial magnetic field, toroidal magnetic field, spacetime curvature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Andrei Dmitrievich, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Soviet Union, Lebedev Institute, Andrei Sakharov, Lebedev Physical Institute, New York, Elena Georgievna, Igor Evgenievich, United States, Moscow State University, Peaceful Coexistence, Academician Sakharov, Elena Bonner, Big Bang, Klavdia Alekseyevna, Kurchatov Institute, Nobel Peace Prize, Edward Teller, Nobel Prize, Zhurnal Eksperimental'noi, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, Merab Konstantinovich, Sakharov's Memoirs New!
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- The Quantum Theory of Radiation: Third Edition (Dover Books on Physics) by W. Heitler on page 41, page 43, and page 109
- Quantum Gravity by M. Markov on page 80, and page 81
- My Country and the World by Andrei D. Sakharov on page 14, and page 84
- Alarm and Hope by Andrei D. Sakharov on page 296
- Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information by Wojciech H. Zurek on page 82
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