Abstract
<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> On 10 November 1937 during the Great Purge, Joseph Stalin's secret police executed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Shubnikov">Lev Shubnikov</a> on trumped-up charges of treason. Although he was only 36 at the time, Shubnikov had already made pioneering discoveries in magnetism and low-temperature physics. As a wanton waste of scientific talent, his killing ranks with those of Archimedes in 212 BC and Antoine Lavoisier in 1794.</xhtml:span>
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