Yakov B. Zel'dovich
| Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich | |
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Stamp recognition of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914–1987)
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| Born | 8 March 1914 Minsk, Russian Empire (Present-day Belarus) |
| Died | 2 December 1987 (aged 73) Moscow, Soviet Union (Present-Day Russia) |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Fields |
Physics Combustion Astrophysics |
| Institutions |
Institute of Chemical Physics Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Notable students |
Rashid Sunyaev Roman Juszkiewicz Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov Sergei Kopeikin Sergei Shandarin Alexei Starobinsky Varun Sahni Mikhail Sazhin |
| Known for |
Soviet atomic bomb project Hawking-Zel'dovich radiation Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect Zel'dovich approximation Zel'dovich number ZND detonation model Shvab–Zel'dovich formulation Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum Zel'dovich mechanism Zel'dovich streaming Model |
| Notable awards |
Order of the October Revolution (1962) Orders of the Red Banner Dirac Medal (1985) |
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich ForMemRS (Belarusian: Якаў Барысавіч Зяльдовіч, Russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Зельдо́вич; 8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987), also known as YaB, was a Russian physicist of Belarusian Jewish ethnicity, who is known for his prolific contributions in cosmology and the physics of thermonuclear and hydrodynamical phenomena.
In addition, he also played a wider and crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until returning back to academia in 1963 to embark towards pioneering contributions on the fundamental understanding of the thermodynamics of black holes and expanding the study scope of cosmology.
Yakov Zel'dovich was born into an ethnic Belarussian Jewish family in his grandfather's house in Minsk, Belarusian region in Russia, on 8 March 1914. But in mid of 1941, the Zel'dovich family moved to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and resided until August 1941 when the family was evacuated together with the faculty of the Institute of Chemical Physics to Kazan to avoid the Axis Invasion of the Soviet Union. They remained in Kazan until the summer of 1943, when Zel'dovich moved to Moscow.
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