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Saturday 26 January 2013

Biographic books of WikipediA: Theoretical Physicists, …



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Theoretical Physicists (Source: Wikipedia , General Books, 2011) - 348 pp.
ISBN: 115104881X, 9781151048813

Contents: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Richard Feynman, Erwin Schr dinger, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Enrico Fermi, Christiaan Huygens, Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli, Freeman Dyson, William Rowan Hamilton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Louis de Broglie, Eugene Wigner, Josiah Willard Gibbs, John Bardeen, Edward Witten, Murray Gell-Mann, Lars Onsager, Max Born, David Deutsch, Satyendra Nath Bose, Lev Landau, Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Wien, John C. Baez, Lee Smolin, John Archibald Wheeler, Rudolf Clausius, Galileo Galilei, Abdus Salam, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Stephen Hawking, James Clerk Maxwell, Riazuddin, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Antony Garrett Lisi, Hans Bethe, Michio Kaku, Hugh Everett III, Leonard Susskind, Gerard 't Hooft, Fayyazuddin, Reinhard Oehme, Masud Ahmad, Steven Weinberg, Frank J. Tipler, Nicolas Rashevsky, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Julian Schwinger, Faheem Hussain, Alexander Kuzemsky, Alan Guth, Vladimir Korepin, Arthur Compton, Brian Greene, Pieter Zeeman, David Pines, Tsung-Dao Lee, Frank Wilczek, James J. Kay, Rolf Hagedorn, Peter Higgs, Vitaly Ginzburg, Jim Al-Khalili, Chen Ning Yang, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Tasneem Zehra Husain, John D. Barrow, David L. Webster, Francisco Jose Yndurain Mu oz, Johann Rafelski, Philip Warren Anderson, C. R. Hagen, Thomas G. Barnes, Nima Arkani-Hamed, John Clive Ward, Marlan Scully, Xiao-Gang Wen, Feza G rsey, Vladimir Gribov, H. Stanley Allen, Mikhail Shifman, Yoichiro Nambu, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Sean M. Carroll, David A. Frank-Kamenetskii, Sidney Coleman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Jack Sarfatti, Ferenc Krausz, Fred Alan Wolf, Giorgio Parisi, Gennadi Sardanashvily, A. P. Balachandran, Laurent Nottale, Lisa Randall, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Owen Willans Richardson, Kenneth G. Wilson, Fran ois Englert, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Tom W. B. Kibble, Boris Chirikov, Bernard d'Espagnat...


Russian Physicists (Source: Wikipedia , General Books, 2010) - 582 pp
ISBN: 1157385842, 9781157385844

Contents: Leonhard Euler, Mikhail Lomonosov, George Gamow, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Zhores Alferov, Lev Landau, Igor Tamm, A. I. Shlyakhter, Vladimir Steklov, Alexander Prokhorov, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Ilya Prigogine, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Alexei Fridman, Dmitri Z. Garbuzov, Alexander Kuzemsky, Eugene Podkletnov, Victor Veselago, Alexander S. Potupa, Nikolay Neprimerov, Boris Rauschenbach, List of Russian astronomers and astrophysicists, Vitaly Ginzburg, Igor Kurchatov, Yevgeny Zavoisky, Abraham Zelmanov, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, List of Russian physicists, Roman Maev, Dmitri Ivanenko, Abram A. Slutskin, Konstantin Novoselov, Roald Sagdeev, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Rashid Sunyaev, Victor Balykin, Eduard Shpolsky, Akiva Yaglom, Mikhail Shifman, Andrei Monin, Vera Yurasova, Pyotr Valentinovich Trusov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Gennadi Sardanashvily, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vladimir Krivchenkov, Nikolay Semyonov, George M. Zaslavsky, Oleg Losev, Abram Ioffe, Ivan Pulyui, Alexander Friedmann, Evgeny Velikhov, Pavel K. Oshchepkov, Boris Chirikov, Igor Sutyagin, Vladimir Ignatowski, Benjamin Fain, Ludvig Faddeev, Ilya Frank, Evgeny Aramovich Abramyan, Grigory Landsberg, Boris Podolsky, Aleksandr Stoletov, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Vladimir Teplyakov, Semen Altshuler, Artem Alikhanian, Boris Hessen, Galina Kurlyandskaya, Sergei P. Kurdyumov, Oleg Firsov, Georgy Golitsyn, Anatoly Vlasov, Eugene Levich, Mikhail Rabinovich, Pavel Cherenkov, Yuri Orlov, Vladimir Markovich Entov, Dmitry Zubarev, Nikolay Basov, Lev Bulat, Sergei Kapitsa, Edward Drobyshevski, Grigoriy A. Gamburtsev, Yurii Shirokov, Sergei Tyablikov, Yakov Frenkel, Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam, Dmitry Shirkov, Sergey Nikitin, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Viktor Dilman, Serge Timashev, Igor Ternov, Nikolay Umov, Arseny Sokolov, ...

Russian Scientists (Source: Wikipedia , General Books, 2011) - 134 pp
ISBN: 1156961084, 9781156961087

Contents: Dmitri Mendeleev, Ivan Pavlov, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, lie Metchnikoff, Ilya Prigogine, List of Russian scientists, Vladimir Kovalevsky, Felix Ziegel, Zaid Orudzhev, Vladimir Shukhov, Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, Victor V. Tikhomirov, Dmitri Z. Garbuzov, Nikolai Vavilov, Vladimir N. Beneshevich, Alexander Kuzemsky, Leibin, Valery Moiseevich, Georgiy B. Shul'pin, Alexander S. Potupa, Anatoly Koryagin, Peter Simon Pallas, Ivan Timokhovich, Dmitry Okhotsimsky, Struve family, Anatoly Fomenko, Askar Akayev, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Mstislav Keldysh, Igor Spassky, Ivan Ostromislensky, Nikolai Kibalchich, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Victor Ovcharenko, Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov, Boris Dubin, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, David A. Frank-Kamenetskii, Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff, Gennady Simeonovich Osipov, Vladimir Porfiriev, Gennadi Sardanashvily, Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka, Leonid Brekhovskikh, Yuri Izrael, Vladimir Wiese, Sergei M. Plekhanov, Erik Laxmann, Khabibullo Abdusamatov, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Eduard Toll, Vasily Karazin, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Yuri Levada, Anatoly Vlasov, Alexander von Middendorff, Oleg Ivanovich Mamayev, Dmitry Zubarev, Mikhail Matinsky, Victor Glushkov, Sergey Polyakov, Alexander Abramov, Sergei Tyablikov, Yuri Savenko, Georgy Gause, Igor Ternov, Arseny Sokolov, Alexander Kuchin, Gerhardt Friedrich M ller, Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov, Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, Pyotr Zinchenko, Aleksandr Chudakov, Mikhail Berulava, Anatoli Bugorski, Franz Aepinus, Andrey Alexandrovich Verbitsky, Yuri Nuller, Mikhail Yangel, Igor Smirnov, Simon El'evich Shnoll, Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, Anatoly Sagalevich, Pavel Molchanov, Boris Babkin, Alexander Nadiradze, Afanasiy Ilich Tobonov, Boris Chertok, Alexandr Kapto, …

Moscow State University Faculty: (Source: Wikipedia , General Books, 2010)  - 382 pp
ISBN: 1155911733, 9781155911731

Contents: Andrey Kolmogorov, Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Arnold, Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn, Lev Landau, Igor Tamm, Alexander Prokhorov, Mikhail Suslov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Zaid Orudzhev, Marina Karaseva, Alexander Luria, Alexei Fridman, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Vladimir Guerrier, Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, Alexander Piatigorsky, Igor Kurchatov, Nikolai Luzin, Ivan Petrovsky, Anatoly Fomenko, Dmitri Ivanenko, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Akiva Yaglom, Valentin Afraimovich, Edward George, Baron George, Pyotr Kapitsa, Gennadi Sardanashvily, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vladimir Krivchenkov, Otto Schmidt, Revaz Dogonadze, Sergei Sobolev, Sergei Novikov, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Lev Gudkov, Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, Aleksandr Stoletov, Oleg Lupanov, Sergei Adian, Yuri Levada, Boris Hessen, Sergei P. Kurdyumov, Valery Legasov, Anatoly Vlasov, Alexander Gelfond, Pavel Alexandrov, Oleg Ivanovich Mamayev, Dmitri Egorov, Kurt Fabri, Johann Fischer von Waldheim, Iosif Shklovsky, Sergey Alexandrovich Markov, Yurii Shirokov, Pavel Petrovich Parenago, Dmitry Shirkov, Nikolay Burdenko, Igor Ternov, Arseny Sokolov, Yakov G. Sinai, John Naisbitt, Maria Smith-Falkner, Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov, Aleksandr Chudakov, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov, D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi, Nikolay Zelinsky, Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy, Marina Solodkin, Veniamin Kagan, Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Valentin Yanin, Khariton Chebotaryov, Aleksandr Khinchin, Nikolay Bogolepov, Lev Schnirelmann, Viktor Sadovnichiy, Tikhon Rabotnov, Albert Shiryaev, Yuri Osipyan, Viktor Buchstaber, Gleb Vladimirovich Nosovsky, Nikolai Brashman, Nikolay Beketov, Boleslav Mlodzeevskii, Pyotr Lebedev, Boris Grakov, Lazar Lyusternik, Haljand Udam, Mikhail Ovsyannikov, Semyon Desnitsky, Irina Antonova, Sergei Fomin, Alexander Spirin, Mikhail Volkenshtein, …


Wednesday 16 January 2013

Ambarzumyan, Ivanenko and the inverse Sturm - Liouville problem

I have seen a recent article: arXiv: 1301.3276, devoted to the pioneer work of Victor Ambarzumyan on the Sturm – Liouville inverse problem in 1929 (Zeitschrift f\"ur Physik, 53, 690-695). It is interesting that an idea of this work belongs to Dmitri Ivanenko, as it follows from the letter of Ambarzumyan to Ivanenko in connection with Ivanenko’s 60s jubilee in 1964. The letter is in Russian, and I provide the English translation of this part.


"In one of our discussions, you posed a question on the uniqueness of definition of a mechanical system by the spectrum of its eigenvalues. It motivated me to write my first article of 1929 on the inverse Sturm – Liouvolle problem. After that, many authoritative mathematicians devoted their attempts to this problem. If today some of them mention my work, then I in turn give you thanks for that discussion which occurred in 1928."