This strange life: Daniil Granin

The book of Daniil Alexandrovich Granin (b. 1919), the classic of modern Russian literature, the laureate of numerous foreign and domestic prizes, the chairman of the board of the D. S. Likhachev International Charitable Fund, included works that unites the theme of the service of science. “… What excites us of the images of great scientists?” Asks the author and he answers himself: “Not at all with his scientific achievements, but how they achieved these successes.” About this “Reflections in front of the portrait, which is not” about the Russian physics-experimenter, electrical engineering, academician Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov; 1761-1834), “The story of one scientist and one emperor”, dedicated to the French physics, astronomer, inventor Dominic Francois Arago (1786-1853), as well as the documentary story “This Strange Life” about the biologist A. A. Lyubishchev (1890-1972) and the essay “How to work as a genius (re-reading P. L. Kapitsa).” In addition to educational pathos, these works are performed by deep morality and psychologism. Poet…

Author
Granin Daniil Alexandrovich
Publisher
Ig Lenizdat, 2014
Series
Lenizza-classic