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Joseph Rapoport – Hero of War and Science

Joseph Rapoport – Hero of War and Science

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Joseph Rapoport was a decorated combat officer and pioneering geneticist. After refusing to submit to the pseudoscientific teachings of Trofim Lysenko, he was expelled from the Communist Party and from his scientific work. Years later, he returned to research and was one of the founders of the field of genetics.
Mathematician Amy Noether. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The Glory and Persecution of a Dynasty of Mathematicians: Amy and Fritz Noether

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My mother Noether transformed modern algebra and discovered the connection between symmetries and conservation laws, but for years she was denied a job because she was a woman. Her brother Fritz, an important mathematician in his own right, escaped from
Portrait photograph of Emanuel Lasker in his old age: silver print, black and white, 12X16.5. According to the stamp on the back of the photograph, it was produced by the German news agency Transocean, probably in the early 1920s. From Wikimedia

Emanuel Lasker: The Genius on the Chessboard and Among the Ideas of the Period

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A 2004 Russian stamp honoring the Jewish-Soviet scientist Yuli Khariton

Yuli Khariton – Creator of the Soviet Union's nuclear power

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After the American atomic bomb was revealed, Soviet scientist Yuli Khariton moved quickly to achieve deterrence parity for the Soviet Union. How did he become the classified face of the Soviet nuclear program, and what was the personal cost?
Matvey Bronstein. Public domain photo.

Murder of a physicist who destroyed an entire scientific field

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Matvey Bronstein was one of the first scientists to study quantum theory. Being an expert in many fields of physics and knowing many languages ​​did not help him when he was executed in 1939 by the Soviet authorities.
Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on March 9, 2022 after being shelled by Russian military forces. Illustration: depositphotos.com2

A historian corrects misunderstandings about Ukrainian and Russian history

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The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Sonny, is not just the truth. Often, he says, "but what's left out." He explains why Russian President Putin is not accurate in the statements he gave as a pretext for war
A retro poster featuring an astronaut and a spaceship from the Soviet era. Illustration: shutterstock

The Soviet space program 1959-1981

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Soviet stamp commemorating the mission of the Probe 5 spacecraft. Photo: withGod / Shutterstock.com

Probe spacecraft for lunar exploration in the mid-sixties

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Lunar Rover 1. From Wikipedia

Luna spacecraft to the moon (c)

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The model of the Luna 16 spacecraft in the Astronautics Museum. From Wikipedia

Luna spacecraft to the moon (B)

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The Luna 1 spacecraft. Image from the NASA archive

Luna spacecraft to the moon (A)

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Salyut 6 space station - Soviet illustration.

Soliot 6 Chapter XNUMX - Triple connection in space

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Stamp commemorating the Soyuz 16 spacecraft. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com

Soyuz 16 - in preparation for the Apollo Soyuz flight

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Diagram of the Salyut 3 space laboratory. From Wikipedia

Soliot 3

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Salyut program logo. From Wikipedia

Soliot 2 - the station that broke up in space and which the Soyuz destined for it were converted to short scientific missions

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The Sliot 1 space laboratory as seen from the Soyuz 11 spacecraft that brought astronauts to it. From Wikipedia

Soliot 1 - a first-generation space laboratory, full of malfunctions and even disaster during the return of the Soyuz 11 crew

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Nikolay Neveshkin / Shutterstock.com

Soviet Union in space - Soyuz and Salyut. Chapter 3: Doubles and triplets in space - Soyuz 2,3; Soyuz 4,5 and Soyuz 6,7,8

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Rocks and mountains on the planet Venus. A view similar to the one where the landers of some of the Venera spacecraft landed. Image: shutterstock

Venus for the advanced - the Soviet flights to our neighbor in the solar system in the seventies

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Soviet stamp commemorating the Venera 1 mission. Photo: shutterstock

Venus - our closest neighbor and the target of many Soviet flights in the first decade of the space age. Part I

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A stamp issued in Mongolia in honor of the Waskhud 2 spacecraft. Photo: shutterstock

The cosmonauts who got stuck in the spaceship 48 hours after landing without being able to open the doors - on the Vashud program

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Say hello in space. A stamp in honor of the Vostok program issued in the Soviet Union in 1961. Photo: shutterstock

The Vostok program - the first time people said hello to each other in space - including the first woman

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Report: Stalin ordered to interbreed humans with monkeys

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