... It was a great privilege for me to live and work for dozens of years within that scientific and humanist community, especially for sixteen years at PhIAN. ... Mandelshtam began his research at the University of Strasbourg (Germany) with the famous physicist Karl Ferdinand Brown, who was the recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics together with Guglielmo Marconi for developing wireless telegraphy. ... Mandelshtam's collected works show that he was equally familiar with all the branches of...