Physics of vacuum at ITEP and around

Abstract

Recollections about a few episodes from the history of physics of vacuum, connected with the names of Pomeranchuk, Landau, Zeldovich, Sakharov and Kirzhnits. The text of the talk will be published in the Proceedings of the International Conference ``From the Smallest to the Largest Distances'', Tribute to Jean Tran-Thanh-Van, May 24-26, 2001 (``Surveys in High Energy Physics'', Taylor and Francis, 2002, v.16, No.3).

Comments: 10 pages