Lev Altshuler
Lev Altshuler · Science & Medicine
Continuum mechanics
1913, Moscow, Russia — 2003
Russia (USSR)
Lev Altshuler is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics
Lev Altshuler was a Soviet physicist and one of the founders of the study of solids under extreme pressures and temperatures, work central to the Soviet atomic-bomb project. He was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals in Moscow. His experimental methods for shock-compressed matter shaped high-pressure physics.
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Continuum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
