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• About the Author

• This book is a collection of personal memories about the people who participated in the USSR atomic project Landau, Alikhanov, Pomeranchuk, Alikhanian, Migdal Jr., Gribov, Zeldovich, Sakharov, Kurchatov, Vannikov, Eldian. As the author is the only living person who was involved in the project, these personal recollections are interesting and unique for a broad audience who has been unfamiliar with the details so far.

• Boris Ioffeis Professor of Physics at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow. He received his PhD in 1952 from Kurchatov Institute, and Professorship at ITEP in 1962. Currently he is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). In 2009 he received I E Tamm Prize of RAS.

  Hehas authored the books Quantum Chromodynamics (jointly with L N Lipatov and V S Fadin), Cambridge University Press, 2010 and Without Retouching, Phasis, 2004.