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Soviet program of nuclear weapons. Zeldovich is regarded as a secret principal of the Soviet nuclear weapons project; his travels abroad were highly restricted, to Eastern Europe, under close Soviet security.
Learn about the life and achievements of Yakov Zel'dovich, a renowned Soviet physicist and cosmologist who received the Bruce Medal in 1983. Explore his contributions to combustion, nuclear weapons, elementary particles, black holes, galaxies, and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.
Dec 5, 1987 · Yakov B. Zeldovich, a physicist who played a major role in the Soviet military industry and helped develop theories on black holes and neutron stars, died Wednesday, the Soviet press agency Tass...
…astrophysicist who, with Soviet physicist Yakov Zeldovich, first proposed the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, in which distortions in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are caused by clusters of galaxies.
Mar 8, 2017 · Born on 8 March 1914 in Minsk (in present-day Belarus), Yakov Zeldovich was a prolific Soviet physicist who made major contributions in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, and nuclear physics.
Soviet theoretical physicist Yakov Zel'dovich made his mark in the astronomical world as founder of the Soviet school of astrophysics and cosmology, within which many ideas of current importance were formulated at the same time (between about 1955 and 1975) as they were being developed in the United States and Europe.
Introduction. Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich – or Ya.B. as his colleagues and friends called him – cele-brated his 70th birthday in 1974. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR made a present to him: it published a selection of his works in two volumes. It was translated into English almost twenty years later (Zeldovich 1993).
