The Life and Legacy of Pomeranchuk

Abstract

The life of Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk was short (20.05.1913 -- 14.12.1966). But the impact of his personality and his works on physics and physicists is remarkable. The talk describes the biography of I.Ya. Pomeranchuk, his major contibutions to condenced matter physics, nuclear and elementary particle physics. The talk is appended by a complete bibliography of I.Ya. Pomeranchuk's publications.Comment: Introductory talk given at the conference "I. Ya. Pomeranchuk and physics at the turn of centuries". To be published by "World Scientific