3: Participants in the Soviet Atom Project

The following sections are included:

• L.D. Landau [24–27]

  • The Landau theoretical minimum

  • Landau’s seminar

  • A classification of theoretical physicists according to Landau

  • History of some papers connected with Landau

  • The personality of Landau

  • The leaflet

• I.Ya. Pomeranchuk

  • Pomeranchuk’s principles

  • Pomeranchuk’s seminar

  • Pomeranchuk outside science

• A.I. Alikhanov

• A.I. Alikhanian

• A.B. Migdal

• V.N. Gribov

• Ya.B. Zel’dovich

• I.V. Kurchatov

• A.D. Sakharov

• B.L. Vannikov

• A.S. Yelian