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More info An excellent physicist, Matvey Petrovich was a man of brilliant humanitarian abilities and amazing memory. He never had to re-read anything: after reading, he memorized forever. Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky jokingly said that if civilization perished, Matvey Petrovich could rewrite the entire encyclopedia — from the first to the last volume. Braonstein read in the original Don Quixote and physical articles in Japanese, translated from Latin into Russian poems by the remarkable poet of Ancient Rome — Catullus and Ukrainian poets. He knew and loved Russian poetry very well and distinguished Alexander Blok from the poets of our century. Abstract The book «Entertaining Quantum Physics» by the famous Soviet physicist Matvey Bronstein will acquaint the reader with the world of tiny particles invisible to the ordinary eye — atoms and electrons. The reader will find an amazing (almost detective) story about scientists: Wilhelm Roentgen, Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie and many others who discovered and studied the nature of radiation. How did Dmitry Mendeleev predict the properties of elements that have not yet been discovered? What was radium used for? What are alpha particles? Why do geologists find strange halos on some minerals? The reader will learn about all this from the book. For middle school age. …
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