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In the festive month of May, 1945, in Moscow and Leningrad meetings of the anniversary session of the Academy of Sciences were held. Formally they were devoted to the 220th anniversary of the Academy, but every participant regarded them as a celebration of the return to peaceful life and to the normal international scientific relations broken by the war.
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The letter was passed on by Frenkel to the newspaper «Polytechnic» and published there on 3 September 1945.
Vestnik vysshey shkoly, 1948, 2–4 (in Russian).
Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks).
This is the sadly famous session of the V.I. Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASHNIL) where T.D. Lysenko and his sympathizers smashed Soviet genetics.
Quoted in a paper by A.S. Sonin, «Priroda», 1990, # 5, p. 96 (in Russian).
It is appropriate to cite two responses to J.I.’s «Wave Mechanics». The first one is from Richard Feynman and was expressed in a private letter to me and then included, with his permission, in a paper about my father. Here is the testimony of the greatest contemporary theoretician: «May I add that your father’s great books on wave mechanics were a strong and valuable influence on me when I was a student». I heard about the other response just recently. Recalling the year 1941 and his many days’ evacuation way to Ashkhabad, A.D. Sakharov wrote: «We spent ten days in Murom waiting for the train. These days happened somehow to be very fruitful for me scientifically: reading Frenkel’s books on quantum («wave») mechanics and the theory of relativity, I understood a lot all at once.»
V.J. Frenkel. «J.I. Frenkel (1894-1952): materials for his scientific biography». Archs. Hist. Exact. Sci., 1974, v. 13, # 1, pp. 1–26.
A more detailed description of Frenkel’s ideas is given in the Russian edition of my book about J.L Frenkel, pp. 427-429.
J.I. Frenkel. Speech in the discussion of a lecture by D.V. Skobel’tsyn. Izv. AN SSSR, ser. flz., 1938, # 1-2, p. 101 (in Russian).
J.I. Frenkel, UFN, v. 33, # 3, p. 295, 1947 (in Russian).
Quoted from: Amer. J. of Phys., v. 19, # 7, 1951.
St. Petersburg Division of the AN Archive, record group 953, inventory 1, file 134.
K. Seelig. Albert Einstein. Moscow, Atomizdat, 1963, p. 176.
In: «J.I. Frenkel. Memoirs. Letters. Documents». Leningrad, Nauka, 1986, p. 53 (in Russian). Probably Grinberg meant the book: O. Schreier und E. Sperner. «Einführung in die Analytische Geometrie und Algebra», Bd. 1 u. 2. Leipzig, Teubner, 1931 (in German).
«Die Gruppentheoretische Methode in der Quantenmechanik». Berlin, Springer, 1932 (in German).
J.I. Frenkel. Izv. An SSSR, ser. geogr. i geofiz., v. 8, p. 150, 1944 (in Russian). The effect predicted by J.I. in this article is now known as the acoustoelectric effect and is studied intensively both in theory and experiment. The first publication on it is dated 1955.
V.V. Bazilevich and K.S. Shifrin. «Works of J.I. Frenkel in geophysics». In: «J.I. Frenkel. Collected Papers», v. II, 1958, p. 515 (in Russian).
Zhournal Tekhnicheskoy Fiziki, v. 20, p. 1927, 1950 (in Russian).
Op. cit.
In 1969 I published the corresponding notes found in my father’s archives: «Cavitation on the surface of a propeller», Inzhenerno-fizicheskiy zhurnal, 1969, v. 16, # 2, pp. 342-355 (in Russian).
Ya.G. Dorfman. J.I. Frenkel. In: «J.I. Frenkel. Collected Papers», v. 2. AN SSSR, Moscow-Leningrad, 1958, p. 15 (in Russian).
J.I. Frenkel. «Atomic Energy Liberation». AN SSSR, Moscow-Leningrad, 1946, p. 3 (in Russian).
To help account for J.I.’s attitude, I quote here an official document characterizing him which had been written and signed by his superiors in April 1951 (this is just the end of the text, absolutely conforming, however, to the style of the whole document): «Does not take part in the social life of the department. Does not participate in the training of new theoretical physicists. His guidance of his Chair is insufficient. Was awarded the title of the laureate of the State Prize for his work «Kinetic Theory of Liquids».» (Archives of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, personal file 3 548, p. 18).
B.P. Konstantinov in: «J.L Frenkel. Memoirs. Letters. Documents». Leningrad, Nauka, 1986, p. 124 (in Russian).
Quoted by: I.E. Tamm. UFN, v. 76, # 3, p. 398, 1962 (in Russian).
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Frenkel, V.Y. (1996). Years 1945-1952. In: Yakov Ilich Frenkel. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8490-7_8
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