Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)

Russian postage stamp honoring Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich.

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 Soviet physicist of Belarusian Jewish ethnicity, who is known for his prolific contributions in cosmology and the physics of thermonuclear and hydrodynamical phenomena.

Zel'dovich played a 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 1963.

He then returned to academia, making pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of the thermodynamics of black holes and expanding the scope of cosmology.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Physicist (nonfiction)

External links:

• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich @ Wikipedia