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Yakov Zeldovich
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, also known as YaB, was a leading Soviet physicist of Belarusian origin, who is known for his prolific contributions in physical cosmology, physics of thermonuclear reactions, combustion, and hydrodynamical phenomena.
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science · Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914–1987) · physicist · astrophysicist · inventor · chemist · university teacher · also Yakov Zeldovich, Zel'dovich Ya. B., Zeldovich Ya. B., Zel'dovich Yakov Borisovich, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Ya. B. Zeldovich
Born 23 February 1914 · Died 2 December 1987 · Q366471
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Algorand” in Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles — cited 1,228 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Friedmann Prize (2002).
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1987· 1 entry
Died 1987-12-02.
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1985· 1 entry
Won ICTP Dirac Medal (1985).
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1984· 2 entries
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1984).
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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Won Bruce Medal (1983).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1979).
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1977· 3 entries
Won Kurchatov Medal (1977).
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Won Numa Manson Medal (1977).
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Zeldovich together with Fyodor Shapiro was awarded the Kurchatov Medal, the highest award in nuclear physics of the Soviet Union
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1974).
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1973· 1 entry
Soviet scientists Zeldovich and Alexei Starobinsky showed Hawking that, according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles
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1966· 1 entry
And Igor Novikov were the first to propose searching for black hole candidates among binary systems in which one star is optically bright and X-ray dark and the other optically dark but X-ray bright (the black hole ca
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1965· 1 entry
Zeldovich had predicted that Kerr black holes would split the emission lines of photons as in a Zeeman effect
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1964· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1964).
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And independently Edwin Salpeter were the first to suggest that accretion discs around massive black holes are responsible for the huge amounts of energy radiated by quasars
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1963· 1 entry
Returned to academia to embark on pioneering contributions on the fundamental understanding of the thermodynamics of black holes and expanding the scope of physical cosmology
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
Predicted the muon catalysis (more precisely, the muon-catalysed dt-fusion) phenomenon
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1958· 1 entry
Whose name was Leonid Yakovlevich Agapov; he died in 2016 at the age of 58
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Prize (1957).
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1956· 2 entries
Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1956).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1956).
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1954· 3 entries
Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1954).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1954).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1954).
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1953).
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Awarded Stalin Prize (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Zeldovich began work in the field of elementary particles and their transformations
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1951· 2 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize (1951).
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Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1951).
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1949· 4 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1949).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1949).
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Awarded Stalin Prize (1949).
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Zeldovich led a team of physicists that conducted the first nuclear test, the RDS-1, based roughly on the American design obtained through the atomic spies in the United States, though he continued his fundamental work o
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945).
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Alexandra Varkovitskaya, with a linguist and folklorist Ludmila Varkovitskaya
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1943· 2 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1943).
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Joseph Stalin decided to launch an arms build-up of nuclear weapons, under the charge of Igor Kurchatov; the latter requested Stalin to relocate Zeldovich and Khariton to Moscow, in the nuclear weapons program
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1942· 1 entry
Zeldovich was relocated to Kazan, and tasked by the People's Commissariat of Munitions to carry out work on conventional gun powders to be supplied to the Soviet Army, while Khariton was asked to design the new types of
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1939· 1 entry
Zeldovich prepared his dissertation based on the mathematical theory of the physical interpretation of nitrogen oxidation, and successfully received the Doctor of Sciences in mathematical physics when it was reviewed by
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1936· 1 entry
Was successful in his candidacy for the Candidate of Science degree (a Soviet equivalent of PhD), having successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of the "adsorption and catalysis on heterogeneous surfaces"
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-02-23.
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