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02.07.2001
12:54

Will Buran Fly Again?

25.06.2001
13:20

XXIV International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Theory

12.06.2001
10:25

New Atomic Submarine AKULA--2 Launched Several Days Ago

12.06.2001
10:23

First Thermonuclear Reactor Is Under Way in Russia

23.05.2001
20:00

New--Generation Carrier Rocket at le Bourget

21.05.2001
18:28

The Pellicle Beam Splitters

12.04.2001
10:16

First Man in Space - 40 Years Ago Sharp!

05.04.2001
16:12

Satellite Acquired by the Moon 35 Years ago

19.03.2001
20:05

New Rocket Carrier is under Way at "Progress"

16.03.2001
17:15

Russian scientists support BeppoSax!

16.03.2001
16:53

Save the best Italian experiment!

08.03.2001
20:51

Yakov Zeldovich Would Have Today his 87th Anniversary

    Stephen Hoking confessed once that before his having met Yakov Borisovich he believed Zeldovich to be "a collective author" like Burbaki. Actually, one might hardly find another scientist with such a large scope of interests among the 20th century physicists. His interests involved problems connected with chemical burning, nuclear physics and atomic applications, explosive hydrodynamics, mathematical physics, as well as the theory of black holes, neutron stars, and the hypothesis concerning the origin of the Universe.

    It seems to me that if he had lived a bit longer, he would certainly have received a Nobel Prize. He used to be a man with a great wit and intelligence. Being pragmatically minded, he managed to step over a lot of rigid scientific viewpoints at the end of his life. I can't help remembering the two things: how difficult it was to follow him running up the scales of his house and how complicated it was to follow his sparkling ideas at the lectures. The both were difficult but very interesting.

    Those who would like to get acquainted with Zeldovich's scientific contributions, works, and rewards may do this hereafter. I shall mention only a number of his bright discoveries:

    -the first chain nuclear reaction calculations (together with Fliorov);

    -the theory of "Katiusha" rocket fuel burning (the world's first monograph on the theory of burning);

    -the discovery of the lepton charge conservation laws;

    -the discovery of the energy source of black holes (accretion);

    -certain ideas which later, as a matter of fact, let Stephen Hoking discover quantum evaporation from black holes;

    -the "pan-cake" theory;

    -The hypothesis dealing with quantum birth of the Universe from vacuum, etc.

    The list may be complemented with such outcomes as many "effects" forecasted and proved afterwards; his work as a lecturer (which he himself considered as being his hobby); the manuals on mathematical physics; his scientific guidance (he created a number of scientific schools, from chemical physics to relativistic astrophysics; his leadership in the theoretical aspects of the atomic project; the three stars of Hero of Socialist Labour.

    The drawing by the summary author.

    Vladimir Lipunov

04.03.2001
20:45

Forty Years Passed since the First Successful Interception of a Ballistic Missile

04.03.2001
13:27

First Thermonuclear Reactor May Be Elaborated in Russia

01.03.2001
22:18

Russian Coil for ITER

12.02.2001
14:58

11 Questions of American Physicists to the Universe and 11 comments of a Russian Astrophysicist

31.01.2001
16:03

35 Years Since the First Soft Landing on the

29.01.2001
16:15

High-energy charged particle flux variations in vicinity of Earth as earthquake precursors

24.01.2001
21:39

New National State Park in Russia

05.01.2001
16:34

World's Best Setup for Laser Treatment of Metals Developed in Novosibirsk

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