The SciencesApril 8, 2012
How the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 3: Why Galileo didn t discover universal gravitation?
Stories by Gennady Gorelik
Gennady Gorelik is a historian of science at Boston University, author of a biography of Andrei Sakharov, and a web-exhibit at American Institute of Physics: Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons & Human Rights
The SciencesApril 7, 2012
How the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 2: source of fundamental laws
The SciencesApril 6, 2012
How the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 1: The Needham Question
The SciencesAugust 21, 2011
The Riddle of the Third Idea: How Did the Soviets Build a Thermonuclear Bomb So Suspiciously Fast?
The SciencesJuly 14, 2011
Why Is Quantum Gravity So Hard? And Why Did Stalin Execute the Man Who Pioneered the Subject?
The SciencesMarch 1, 1999
The Metamorphosis of Andrei Sakharov
The inventor of the Soviet hydrogen bomb became an advocate of peace and human rights. What led him to his fateful decision?
The SciencesAugust 1, 1997
The Top-Secret Life of Lev Landau
KGB archives reveal that the Soviet genius co-authored an anti-Stalin manifesto