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100 1 Josephson, Paul R.
245 10 Lenin's laureate :|bZhores Alferov's life in communist
science /|cPaul R. Josephson.
264 1 Cambridge, Mass. :|bMIT Press,|c[2010]
264 4 |c©2010
300 1 online resource (307 pages) :|billustrations.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
490 1 Transformations
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 "In 2000, the Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the
Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the
heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical
applications of which include light-emitting diodes, rapid
transistors, and the microchip. Alferov's Nobel Prize was
the culmination of a career that spanned the eras of
Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev--and continues today in
the post-communist Russia of Putin and Medvedev. In
Lenin's Laureate, the historian Paul Josephson tells the
story of Alferov's life and work and examines the
bureaucratic, economic, and ideological obstacles to doing
statesponsored scientific research in the Soviet Union."
"Lenin and the Bolsheviks built strong institutions for
scientific research, rectifying years of neglect under the
Tsars. Later generations of scientists, including Alferov
and his colleagues, reaped the benefits, achieving
important breakthroughs: the first nuclear reactor for
civilian energy, an early fusion device, and, of course,
Sputnik. Josephson's account of Alferov's career reveals
the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science, a
schizophrenic environment of cutting-edge research and
political interference. Alferov, born into a family of
Communist loyalists, joined the Party in 1967. He
supported Gorbachev's reforms in the 1980s, but later
became frustrated by the recession-plagued post-communist
state's failure to fund scientific research adequately. An
elected member of the Russian parliament since 1995, he
uses his prestige as a Nobel laureate to protect Russian
science from further cutbacks." "Drawing on extensive
archival research and the author's own discussions with
Alferov, Lenin's Laureate offers a unique account of
Soviet science, presented against the backdrop of the
USSR's turbulent history from the revolution through
perestroika."--Jacket.
588 0 Print version record.
600 10 Alferov, Zh. I.
600 17 Alferov, Zh. I.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01472186
650 0 Physicists|zRussia (Federation)|vBiography.
650 0 Physics|zRussia (Federation)|xHistory.
650 0 Science and state|zRussia (Federation)|xHistory.
650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xScience & Technology.|2bisacsh
650 7 SCIENCE|xHistory.|2bisacsh
650 7 HISTORY|zEurope|xRussia & the Former Soviet Union.
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650 7 Physicists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01063014
650 7 Physics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01063025
650 7 Science and state.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01108536
651 7 Russia (Federation)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01262050
655 7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 |iPrint version:|z9786612899232
830 0 Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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