Shifman Misha
Physics In A Mad World
- ISBN 13:
- 9789814619295
- author:
- Shifman Misha
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- World Scientific Publishing Company
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 556
- Dimensions:
- 2.5 x 15.9 x 23.5 cm
- Genre:
- History, Other Historical Subjects, History of Science
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Friedrich Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German physicist who made significant contributions to cosmochemistry and geochemistry. In 1935, he fled to the Soviet Union after being targeted by the Gestapo due to his communist beliefs. Houtermans' life took a dramatic turn when he was arrested in 1937 and tortured into confessing to being a Trotskyist plotter. He was later turned over to the Gestapo in 1940 and imprisoned in Berlin. His wife, Charlotte, had already escaped to Denmark, England, and eventually the United States. The book also tells the story of Yuri Golfand, one of the codiscoverers of supersymmetry, a major discovery in theoretical physics. Golfand's life was marked by persecution due to his Jewish origin, leading him to join the Human Rights movement alongside other prominent physicists.
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