Roald Sagdeev
| Roald Sagdeev | |
|---|---|
| Born | Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev December 26, 1932 Moscow |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Tatar |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Kurchatov Institute Institute of Nuclear Physics Russian Space Research Institute University of Maryland |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral students | Vladimir Zakharov, Albert Galeev, Alexei Fridman |
| Known for | Plasma physics |
| Notable awards |
Lenin Prize (1984) Hero of Socialist Labor (1986) |
Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (Russian: Роальд Зиннурович Сагдеев, Tatar: Роальд Зиннур улы Сәгъдиев born 26 December 1932) is a Soviet and Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sagdeev graduated from Moscow State University. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has worked at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1989 in the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He is also currently a Senior Advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, where he assists clients with issues involving Russia and countries in the former Soviet Union. Sagdeev was married to, and divorced from, Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics (2001).
Roald Sagdeev is an ethnic Tatar. His maternal grandfather was a secular man teaching mathematics. He was born in Moscow on December 26, 1932, soon after the arrival of his young parents from Tatarstan. The family used to speak Russian at home. Nonetheless, the parents also communicated in Tatar between adults when secrecy was needed. He lived with them until the age of four near the Nikitsky Gates. His father was then a post-graduate student. He spent the following years in Kazan where he graduated from a high school. The young Roald was not only a quite outstanding student who was awarded the Silver Medal, but also champion of chess among juniors of his city. His brother Renad Zinnurovich Sagdeev was (born December 13, 1941) would later study chemistry. He returned to Moscow to study at the Moscow State University. Sagdeev was one of a few of Lev Landau's students, the best theoretical physicist in the Soviet Union. In the dormitory he lived next to Mikhail Gorbachev, a law student, and Raisa Gorbachyova, a sociology student.
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