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From the history of physics


S.I. Vavilov’s manuscript letter to Stalin


S.I. Vavilov Institute of History of Natural Sciences and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Obrucheva 30A, korp. B, Moscow, 117861, Russian Federation

A letter from S I Vavilov, then President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, to Stalin has been discovered in the archives of the Science Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which is concerned with the problem of secrecy in physics and suggests criteria by which classified and nonclassified studies may be distinguished. The letter is not only of interest to physicists and science historians, but also is a telling document of the totalitarian times, when it took no less than the states’s top leaders to resolve issues as this.

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Fulltext is also available at DOI: 10.1070/PU2000v043n09ABEH000267
PACS: 01.65.+g
DOI: 10.1070/PU2000v043n09ABEH000267
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2000/9/j/
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Citation: Krivonosov Yu I "S.I. Vavilov's manuscript letter to Stalin" Phys. Usp. 43 949–952 (2000)
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Оригинал: Кривоносов Ю И «Рукописное письмо С.И. Вавилова Сталину» УФН 170 1021–1024 (2000); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0170.200009k.1021

S.I. Vavilov is author of Physics-Uspekhi

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