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"The English version of the book does not di?er essentially from the Rus- 1 sian version . Along with a few notes and new references I included Part II to Article 3 and added some new materials to the 'Nobel' autobiography. Furthermore, Article 7 (M. Cardona and W. Marx ""Vitaly L. Ginzburg - a bibliometricstudy""),whichwaspublishedinJournalofSuperconductivityand NovelMagnetism, v.19, No.3-5, July 2006 is included as an appendix. My special thanks are due to Prof. Manuel Cardona and Prof. Werner Marx who kindly allowed publishing their paper as an appendix to this book (with some new minor author's amendments). Also, I am grateful to M.S. Aksent'eva, E.A. Frimer, G.M. Krasnikova and S.G.RudnevfortheirassistanceinthepreparationoftheEnglishmanuscript. Moscow, September 2008 V.L.Ginzburg 1 V.L.Ginzburg,Osverkhprovodimostiiosverkhtekuchesti.Avtobiogra?a (Moskva: Izdatel'styvo Fiziko-matematicheskoi literatury, 2006) Preface to the Russian Edition The Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003 was awarded to A.A. Abrikosov, A.J. L- gett and myself 'for pioneering contribution to the theory of superconductors and super?uids'. It does not mean that the contribution was made in joint works with these authors. Speci?cally, I do not have any joint publications with A.A. Abrikosov and A.J. Leggett."

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Author:   Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783642087615

ISBN 10:   3642087612
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   14 October 2010
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Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

On Superconductivity and Superfluidity (What I Have and Have Not Managed to Do), As Well As on the ‘Physical Minimum’ at the Beginning of the 21st Century.- Superconductivity and Superfluidity.- A Few Comments on Superconductivity Research.- On the Theory of Superconductivity.- ‘Nobel’ Autobiography.- A Scientific Autobiography: An Attempt.- Vitaly L. Ginzburg: A Bibliometric Study.

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Aus den Rezensionen: Wenn einer der grossen russischen Physiker seine Autobiografie veroffentlicht, verdient dies zweifellos besondere Aufmerksamkeit. Dies gilt ... uneingeschrankt fur Vitaly Ginzburg und sein Buch ... Im Abdruck der beruhmten Arbeit ... spiegelt sich auch die Tatsache wieder, dass diese Arbeit wohl die grosste wissenschaftliche Wirkung erzielte. ... Naturlich ist das Buch keine Einfuhrung in die Supraleitung und Supraflussigkeit. Fur den Experten und Wissenschaftshistoriker ist es aber eine ergiebige Quelle zu den Entwicklungen auf diesen Gebieten. Besondere Hohepunkte sind die ausfuhrlichen Schilderungen zu den Anfangen ... (Rudolf Huebener, in: Physik Journal, November/2009, Vol. 8, Issue 11, S. 58)

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"Born 4 October 1916 in Moscow, Russia. Graduated from Moscow State University in 1938. Defended candidate dissertation (Ph.D.) in Moscow State University in 1940. From 1940 till now works in P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute Acad. Sci. USSR (now Russian Acad. Sci.). In 1942 defended Dr. Sci. dissertation. From 1971 till 1988 - head (director) of I. E. Tamm department of theoretical physics, from 1988 till now adviser in Russian Acad. Sci. and head of the theoretical group in P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute. From 1945 was visiting professor in Gorkii State University and from 1968 till now professor in Moscow Physico-Technical Institute. In 1953 was elected corresponding member of Acad. Sci. USSR and in 1966 - full member. Decorated with USSR and Russian orders. Was elected also: 1969 - member Intern. Acad. Astronautics, 1970 - associate Roy. Astron. Soc., 1971 - foreign honorary member American Acad. Art and Science, 1977 - foreign member Royal Danish Acad. Sci. and Letters, 1977 - honorary fellow Indian Acad. Sci., 1981 - foreign fellow Indian Nat. Sci. Acad., 1981 - foreign associate National Acad. Sci. USA, 1987 - foreign member Roy. Soc. (London), 1990 - member Academia Europaea. Was awarded: Mandelstam Prize 1947, Lomonosov Prize 1962, State Prize 1953, Lenin Prize 1966, M. Smoluchovskii Medel Polish Phys. Soc., 1987, Gold medal Roy. Astron. Soc. 1991, Bardeen Prize 1991, Wolf Prize 1994/1995, Vavilov Gold medal 1995, Big Lomonosov Gold medal Russian Acad. Sci. 1995, UNESCO - Nils Bohr Gold Medal 1998, D. Nicholson Medal (APS, 1999), O'Ceallaigh Medal 2001, ""Triumph"" Prize 2002, Nobel Prize in Physics 2003. ""for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfuids"". V. L. Ginzburg is the author of several hundreds papers and many books including: Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics (Pergamon Press, 1979); Waynflete Lectures of Physics (Pergamon Press, 1983); Origin of Cosmic Rays (with S. I. Syrovatskii, Pergamon Press, 1964); Propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasma (Pergamon Press, 1970); Transition radiation and Transition Scattering (with V. N. Tsytovich, Adam Hilger Publ. House, 1990); Crystal Optics with Spatial Dispersion and Excitons (with V. M. Agranovich, Springer-Verlag, 1984), Physics and Astrophysics. A selection of key problems (Pergamon Press, 1985); On Physics and Astrophysics (in Russian, Publ. House ""Nauka"", Moscow, 1992; Publ. House ""Quantum"", Moscow, 1995). About Science, Myself and Others (in Russian, Publ. House ""Nauka"", Moscow, 1997), The Physics of a Lifetime (Reflections on the Problems and Personalities of 20th Century Physics) (in English, published by Springer 2001), About Science, Myself and Others (in Russian, 3rd edition, ""FizMatLit"" Publishing House, 2003), About Science, Myself and Others (in English, Institute of Physics Publishing, 2005), ""Superconductivity and Superfluidity. An Autobiography."" (in Russian, ""FizMatLit"" Publishing House, 2006)."

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