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Science & Medicine
Lev Altshuler
Who
Lev Altshuler · Science & Medicine
What
Continuum mechanics
When
1913, Moscow, Russia — 2003
Where
Russia (USSR)
Biography
Lev Altshuler is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics
How & why
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.
Sources & external links
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
Contributions & Sources
Continuum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
