Sakharov and MHD
June 2, 2006
Andrei Sakharov is the great pioneer of Russian MHD. E. Velikhov, whom I knew well, was his student. Here is a recent photo of him, who was Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and now leads the legendary Kurchatov Institute of High Temperatures (Kurchatov was the father of the Russian atomic bomb, while Sakharov was the father of the hydrogen bomb).
E.P. Velikhov
Qhen Sakharov was still facing harassment from the former USSR, scientists from all over the world united to make known, in various languages, the broad range of his scientific work. In France, these works were published in 1984 in the volume below, issued by Anthropos editions:
( a publishing house that has disappeared, the book is now unobtainable )
The volume includes, among other things, Sakharov's work on twin universes (1967). It also contains a chapter dedicated to MHD, a field he developed from the 1950s onward.
The section of the book devoted to MHD (4 Mo)
This document has historical value. We will refer to it frequently. Indeed, I believe that very important research will emerge in the near future, with their starting point being these studies initiated as early as the 1950s on magneto-cumulative generators using explosives as their primary energy source.
