http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/11/i-was-a-slave-scientist-in-russia-part-two/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/11/i-was-a-slave-scientist-in-russia-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-1048505 mecki Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:06:23 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/11/i-was-a-slave-scientist-in-russia-part-two/#comment-1048505 Interesting side note to this article. In the previous installment, Maar writes of going to the library and seeing Prof. Robert Pohl's Physics textbooks, translated into Russian under someone else's name. Pohl was well aware that his books had been published in Russian (and was actually quite proud of the fact, even though he never received a kopeck's payment for them) but they were always printed under his own name. So it's a bit of a mystery to me that the books Maar references should not have had his name on them, there doesn't seem to be a reason that they'd publish them once under 'Pohl' and once under a fake name. My only guess is that Pohl's name was transliterated into Russian in such a way that it didn't register as 'Robert Pohl' to Dr. Maar, but I can't imagine that he'd be so completely unable to decipher Cyrillic after spending as much time as he did in a Soviet camp. Anyway, nothing earthshattering, but interesting to someone who is a grandson of Robert Pohl. Interesting side note to this article. In the previous installment, Maar writes of going to the library and seeing Prof. Robert Pohl’s Physics textbooks, translated into Russian under someone else’s name. Pohl was well aware that his books had been published in Russian (and was actually quite proud of the fact, even though he never received a kopeck’s payment for them) but they were always printed under his own name. So it’s a bit of a mystery to me that the books Maar references should not have had his name on them, there doesn’t seem to be a reason that they’d publish them once under ‘Pohl’ and once under a fake name.
My only guess is that Pohl’s name was transliterated into Russian in such a way that it didn’t register as ‘Robert Pohl’ to Dr. Maar, but I can’t imagine that he’d be so completely unable to decipher Cyrillic after spending as much time as he did in a Soviet camp.
Anyway, nothing earthshattering, but interesting to someone who is a grandson of Robert Pohl.

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