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  • Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
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  • Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich ForMemRS (, ) (8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist born in Belarus. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, physical cosmology, and general relativity.
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Birth Date
  • 1914-03-03
Name
  • Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
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  • Minsk, Russian Empire, Present-day Belarus
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  • 1987-12-02
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  • Physics
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  • Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich ForMemRS (, ) (8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist born in Belarus. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, physical cosmology, and general relativity.