One of history's greatest discoveries came not from calculation but from a dream.
As heard by us
A compact tour of Russian science from Tatyshev to Ivanovsky.
Russian Scientists uses the shift from tsarist Russia to the Soviet era as its organizing line, defining its subjects as scientists whose main careers belonged to the earlier order and whose major discoveries did not come under Soviet rule.
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You get city founders, court medicine, opera, and the co-discovery of viruses.
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