Word: frenkel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the physicists were herded into line too. The Literary Gazette published two loud blasts against leading Russian physicists. Professor Y. I. Frenkel, author of a book on atomic energy, was accused of "promulgating the quantum theory in the disguise of Marxist dialectical robes." Professors M. Markov and V. Svidersky were denounced for "idealistic and formalistic" conceptions in atomic theory which are "nothing but conceptions admitting the existence of a limit to knowledge...