Sidney david drell, professor emeritus at stanford university and senior fellow at the hoover institution, died shortly after his 90th birthday in palo alto, california. It lasted from 1921 until lenins successor, joseph stalin, brought it to an end in 1928. In chapter 9 of his memoirs alfred knopf, 1990, sakharov describes in some detail the early. In collaboration with igor tamm, sakharov wrote the first papers on the tokamak.
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