This book is dedicated to the Soviet theoretician Yakov Ilich
Frenkel (1894 - 1952), whose work in solid and liquid state physics
is considered to be the golden foundation of twentieth century
physics. Best known are the Frenkel pairs (defects), kinetic theory
of liquids, theory of mobile dislocations (Frenkel- Kontorova
solitons). Today, the electron theory of solids is inconceivable
without excitons - the quasiparticles he introduced in 1930.
Frenkel also contributed important concepts to classical
electrodynamics (which now go under Feynmana s appellation
"Frenkela s Fields") and to nuclear physics (the Bohr-Frenkel drop
model). The book surveys the genesis and ramifications of Yakov
Frenkela s scientific achievements. Special attention is paid to
Frenkela s civic convictions, his fight against official Soviet
philosophy for the acceptance and development of the theory of
relativity and quantum mechanics in the Soviet Union of the 1920sa
"1940s, a crucial thirty-year period in the history of Russian
physics following the October Revolution. Much of the book is based
on a wealth of archival documents, personal reminiscences and of
Frenkela s letters. Thanks to his trenchant observations, a vivid
picture emerges of scientists, universities and cultures in Europe,
the United States and various cities of the Soviet Union. The book
is richly illustrated by unique photos and copies of drawings and
portraits from Frenkela s own hand.
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