Dreams of the President. From the personal diaries of academician S. I. Vavilov
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The life of a physicist, a historian of science and a major scientific administrator Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (1891-1951) is unusual. Perhaps, when viewed from the 21st century, his scientific achievements, and his heroic, ascetic activity as the President of the Academy of Sciences (which, moreover, occurred for the years of the shameful defeat of genetics and other similar ideological campaigns) may not seem too significant. However, for the first time, the recently published personal diary, which Academician Vavilov secretly kept for many years, reveals a new amazing measurement of his intellectual life. In it, historical reality is adjacent to the world of dreams, dreams and thoughts about deep issues of consciousness, faith, death. The historian of science Andrei Vasilievich Andreev describes this unexpected side of the personality of S. I. Vavilov in his book and makes an attempt to study his original philosophy
Author:
Author:Андреев Андрей Васильевич
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Cover:Hard
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- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
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ISBN:978-5-4448-1857-2
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