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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

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology

Contributions & Sources

Continuum mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology