struggle session for us cool informed physics geniuses: is anyone cool except for Einstein? 19th century physicists were mostly nobles, tons of German physicists were nazis, prominent amerikan scientists were part of Manhattan, just learned about this cringe episode in the life of Landau
On 27 April 1938, Landau was arrested for the leaflet which compared Stalinism to German Nazism and Italian Fascism.[17][23] He was held in the NKVD's Lubyanka prison until his release, on 29 April 1939, after Pyotr Kapitsa, an experimental low-temperature physicist and the founder and head of the institute, wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin in which he personally vouched for Landau's behaviour and threatened to quit the institute if Landau were not released.
just noticed the name and cringed... wtf is it with every other physicist but me
Hey! I’m the one good physicist here!
struggle session for us cool informed physics geniuses: is anyone cool except for Einstein? 19th century physicists were mostly nobles, tons of German physicists were nazis, prominent amerikan scientists were part of Manhattan, just learned about this cringe episode in the life of Landau
Alferov is somewhat cool, well a lot of russian scientists are, except the super big boys:(
Edit: by a lot of accounts, landau was a dick btw till his 50s
Klaus Fuchs was a Soviet spy.
Fuck, didn’t know this about Landau.
Feynman was kind of a hippy who went to stripclubs to sit in the corner and draw.