Reinders L.J. The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov: Pioneer of Soviet Cryogenics

Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 355 p. — (Springer Biographies). — ISBN: 978-3-319-72097-5.This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937). From 1926 to 1930 Shubnikov worked in Leiden where he was the co-discoverer of the Shubnikov-De Haas effect. After his return to the Soviet Union he founded in Kharkov in Ukraine the first low-temperature laboratory in the Soviet Union, which in a very short time became the foremost physics institute in the country and among other things led to the discovery of type-II superconductivity. In August 1937 Shubnikov, together with many of his colleagues, was arrested and shot early in November 1937. This gripping story gives deep insights into the pioneering work of Soviet physicists before the Second World War, as well as providing much previously unpublished information about their brutal treatment at the hands of the Stalinist regime.Shubnikov’s Early Years in St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad
Shubnikov’s Scientific Work in Leningrad; Papers with Obreimov
Shubnikov in Leiden
Shubnikov’s Scientific Work in Leiden: Shubnikov—De Haas Effect
Founding of the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute in Kharkov
History of UFTI in the Thirties
Shubnikov’s Scientific Work at UFTI
Repression at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute
The UFTI Affair: The Case of Weissberg and Weisselberg
The UFTI Affair: The Case of Shubnikov, Rozenkevich and Gorsky
The UFTI Affair: Other Repressed UFTI Physicists
The Landau-Korets-Rumer Case
Shubnikov’s Rehabilitation
Afterword