Mayants, Lazar, 1912-
Lazar Mayants papers, 1941-2003.
The Mayants Papers are comprised of professional correspondence, drafts of articles, personal and financial records, and notes for research and teaching. Mayantss dissertation from the Lebedev Institute for Physics is also included with the collection. These papers offer insight into the life of an emigre scientist during the latter years of the Cold War.
Lazar Mayants, 1912-2002, Russian physicist. He earned a PhD in chemistry (1941) from the Karpov Institute for Physical Chemistry and a Doctor of Science in physics and mathematics (1947) at the Lebedev Institute for Physics (FIAN), both in Moscow. With primary research interests in theoretical molecular spectroscopy, applied linear algebra, quantum physics, probability theory and statistics, and the philosophy of science, he began his career as Professor and Chair of the Theoretical and General Physics Departments at Ivanovo, Saratov, and Smolensk Universities in Russia. Mayants came to University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981 as a visiting professor, becoming an Adjunct in 1987. He taught at UMass for over six years, often forgoing a paycheck as a result of decreased funding in the sciences.
Mayants, Lazar, 1912-
University of Massachusetts at Amherst -- Faculty.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.
Physics -- Soviet Union.
Quantum theory.
AIP-ICOS
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. W.E.B. Du Bois Library. Special Collections and Archives. Amherst, MA 01003, USA