User:Carcharoth/Book notes
A set of notes (spinning out to subpages as needed) from books I have read, highlighting what coverage we have in Wikipedia of the people and events and subjects mentioned in the books. Eventually, can add referenced material to the articles based on the information in the books.
Russian Silhouettes
- Russian Silhouettes (3rd ed, 2009, Genna Sosonko)
- Genna Sosonko (author)
- Chapters on: Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Botvinnik, Lev Polugaevsky, Efim Geller, Paul Keres, Jose Raul Capablanca, Vladimir Zak, Semyon Furman, Alexander Koblenz, Alvis Vitolins, Grigory Levenfish.
- Other people mentioned: Hamilton Fish III, Nikolai Evdokimov, described as "subjugator" of Imam Shamil (from the Capablanca chapter). Fedor Bogatyrchuk (Levenfish chapter). Nikolai Krylenko (mentioned in several chapters). Peter Romanovsky, Alexander Konstantinopolsky.
- Other topics mentioned: Sovremenny Debyut (by Levenfish, precursor to Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings).
Einstein's Jury
- Einstein's Jury - The Race to Test Relativity (2006, Jeffrey Crelinsten)
- Scientists involved in relativity theory: Albert Einstein, Robert Julius Trumpler, Arthur Eddington.
- Scientists involved in testing relativity: Milton L. Humason, Edwin P. Hubble, Charles E. St. John, Albert A. Michelson, William W. Campbell, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Eddington, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, Dayton C. Miller, John Evershed, Heber Doust Curtis.
- Critics of relativity: Charles Lane Poor, T. J. J. See.
- Other scientists: George Ellery Hale.
- Institutions: Lick Observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory.
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