| Date of Birth | 03-March-1914 | |
| Place of Birth |
Minsk (Belarus, Minsk Region, Russian Empire) |
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| Nationality | Soviet Union | |
| Also know as | I͡A. B. Zelʹdovich | |
| Profession | Physicist, Scientist | |
| Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich ForMemRS 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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1983 |
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