Этюды об ученых

by Yaroslav Golovanov, Ярослав Голованов

Дополненное переиздание популярной книги об ученых разных стран и эпох.
Новеллы Ярослава Голованова дают представление о нравственном облике ученых.
Большая часть этюдов посвящена русским и советским ученым.

Genres: History

416 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1976

About the author

Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovanov - Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and popularizer of science. Author of 20 books, over 1200 newspaper and 160 magazine articles. Winner of two highest journalistic awards "Golden Pen". Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR (1982). Father V. Ya. Golovanov.

Y. K. Golovanov was born on June 2, 1932 in Moscow into an artistic family. Grandfather - N. N. Golovanov - translator of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy from Italian into Russian. Father, K.N. Golovanov was the founder and first director of the Moscow Traveling Theater of Drama and Comedy (Theater of Transport, now the Moscow Drama Theater named after N.V. Gogol), worked in the management of theaters of the Committee for Arts under the SNK of the RSFSR, was one of the leaders of the Central House of Culture of Railwaymen. Mother Anfisa Vasilievna Golovanova (nee Kozlova) under the pseudonym Andreeva was the leading actress of the Transport Theater. In 1941 he was evacuated with his family to Omsk, in 1943 he returned to Moscow.

1950 - graduated from high school in Moscow.
1956 - graduated from the rocket department of the Moscow State Technical University. N.E.Bauman. The diploma project (calculation of a liquid-propellant engine with a thrust of 100 tons) was carried out under the leadership of A.P. Vanichev. According to the distribution, he was sent to the Research Institute-1 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry, but was assigned to the laboratory of G.I.Petrov not in his specialty, which was the reason for the search for other areas of activity.
February 1958 - selected from a number of candidates for the position of literary employee of the science department of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", with which all his future journalistic and writing activities are connected.
since 1960 - head of the information department
since 1963 - traveling correspondent
since 1966 - member of the editorial board of the newspaper
since 1968 - newspaper columnist

For over 10 years he was a special correspondent for the newspaper at the Baikonur cosmodrome and at the MCC.

Ya.K. Golovanov died of a stroke on May 21, 2003 in Moscow.

Reviews

[Victor Sonkin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I realized the structure of the collection only at the very end, when I was reading the part about Einstein or something; before that I was a bit puzzled by the order ancient-Russian-German-American-Russian-ancient, etc.; it turned out that it was simply based on the Russian alphabetical order. Some of the stories seemed forced, like the one about Kibalchich, who didn't really seem to have invented anything, but was simply a terrorist who liked to play with (probably misunderstood) physical ideas. But otherwise it's a great collection, and the one that gives a lot of food for thought; that is, it often hints at some details of the current protagonist's life, and leaves it to you to do your own research if you're interested. I remember the impression Golovanov's story about Halley's Comet made on me when it was published in 1986; this collection confirms that it was no coincidence.

[Artem Huletski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Снизил немного оценку за перекос в сторону советских учёных и однообразно трагичное завершение каждой главы.