Colloquium
Politically
Nonconforming Scientists Met Behind the Iron Curtain
Dr. Mikhail Agrest
Department of Physics & Astronomy
College of Charleston
Thursday,
February 7, 2008, 1:40 p.m., SCIC 126
Contemporary inventions in science and in physics
particularly are often more exciting than science fiction fantasies of the
most sophisticated writers. The life and work of scientists in the
contemporary world is of great interest to the public and politicians
partially because of mass destruction opportunities hidden in these
inventions. The gravitation to free communication and the exchange of ideas
with colleagues in the world independently of their political affiliation
sometimes takes over the sense of personal security. This paper uncovers
just one page in the relationships of former USSR
and U.S.
scientists during the Cold War. A meeting of renowned American particle
physicist Thomas Stix with one of the invisible
Russian scientists, a participant of the Russian Nuclear project, a
generator of extraordinary ideas, and a dissident Mates Agrest
was documented by the KGB agent. The photographs of that meeting became
available.
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