A tale of a never-seen-before science
Russia had witnessed unprecedented development in the case of science and also in the case of technology when the state was worker's state, U.S.S.R., the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. The development in research of all the trades of science and technological advancement brought a very rapid social development, enrichment in culture and politics. It established the U.S.S.R. as a powerhouse of the world and set an example in the history of human civilisation.
The Approach
The main feature of the advancement of science was its complete linkage to the idea that the state followed that time, more precisely, with dialectical materialism. The U.S.S.R. had always focused on practical or experimental science that carries a direct impact upon human society. Thus the model of technological advancement of Soviet Russia followed a unique path in its approach from any other nation.
Immediately after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the Soviets began their journey of science which lasted till 1991. Undoubtedly, it mostly flourished so much that it got global level recognition under the rule of their national hero Joseph Stalin. His initiatives made the study and advancement of science a prior task for the process of nation-building and cultivation and innovations of technology for prosperity, and that was why they launched the campaign of 'People's Science' to generate curiosity about scientific and technical things among the general people. Science became a topic for mass discussion only in the U.S.S.R.
Notable Researchers and Awards
The nation used to emphasise every trade of science discovered till that time. There was Physics, there was chemistry, Astronomy and Bio-science as well. Scientists from the U.S.S.R. were so bright that in only 34 years the nation received 5 Nobel Prizes— an unbelievable success! Below is the list of those Nobel winning scientists.
Nikolay Semenov in Chemistry for his outstanding attribution in the chain theory and also in the combustion process. H received the prize in 1956
Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm in 1958 for the well-known Cherenkov Effect.
In 1962, Lev Landau was awarded for liquid helium, Nikolay Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov were awarded for their credible efforts in Quantum mechanics.
The father of Cryophysics, Pyotr Kapitsa received the prize due to his epoch-changing contribution to Cryophysics in 1978.
Furthermore, Pyotr Kapitsa and Alexei Abrikosov were awarded in the year 2001 and 2003 respectively in Physics, after the fall of the USSR.ver, the turmoil both in political and economical conditions was the main reason for n
