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Yakov Zeldovich
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Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
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Yakov Zeldovich was a scientist recognized in the collections of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His professional affiliations included the Steklov Mathematical Institute.
He was born on February 23, 1914, and died on December 2, 1987.
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Key facts
- Born
- Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, (Я́ков Бори́сович Зельдо́вич) , 8 March 1914, Minsk , Minsk Governorate , Russian Empire , (now Minsk in Belarus )
- Died
- 2 December 1987 (1987-12-02) (aged 73), Moscow, Russia , Soviet Union
- Resting place
- Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
- Siglum
- YaB
- Citizenship
- USSR
- Alma mater
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Awards
- Friedmann Prize (2002) , Dirac Medal (1985) , Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1983) , Bruce Medal (1983) , Kurchatov Medal (1977) , Lenin Prize (1957) , Hero of Socialist Labor (1949, 1954, 1956)
- Fields
- Physics
- Institutions
- Institute of Chemical Physics , Moscow State University , Sternberg Astronomical Institute
- Thesis
- Theory of Nitrogen Oxidation (1939)
- Doctoral advisor
- Aleksandr Frumkin
- Doctoral students
- Sergei Kopeikin Marina Romanova
- Other notable students
- Rashid Sunyaev , Roman Juszkiewicz , Igor Novikov , Sergei Shandarin [ ru ] , Alexei Starobinsky , Vladimir M. Lipunov , Victor Shvartsman [ ru ] , Varun Sahni , Deborah Dultzin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Minsk
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Lev Landau
- Student of
- Nikolay Semyonov
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Yakov Zeldovich, December 1980.jpg
- Residence
- Soviet Union
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- date of death
- 1987-12-02
- date of birth
- 1914-02-23
- Commons category
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
- described at URL
- www.mi.ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoriapage&id=23369&l=1
- student
- Alexei Starobinski
- writing language
- Russian
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- member of
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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