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The importance of the Strasbourg period in L. I. Mandelstam's life for his further work in science

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L.I. Mandelstam, the outstanding Soviet physicist, leader of a prominent and productive scientific community, was educated as a physicist and started as a researcher and an university teacher at Strasbourg University. We consider the intellectual influence of the main currents in contemporary German science on Mandelstam's work in science.

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This article represents the results of research which is supported by a fellowship of the Deutsches Museum and the Russian Foundation of Scientific Research in Humanities grant.

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Pechenkin, A.A. The importance of the Strasbourg period in L. I. Mandelstam's life for his further work in science. NTM N.S. 7, 93–104 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02914143

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