In Memoriam
Remembering Boris Zeldovich: 1944-2018
Four colleagues look back on the career and contributions of the renowned Russian–American physicist, who passed away in December 2018.
[Courtesy of Nadia Baranova]
Boris Ya. Zeldovich, a renowned Russian–American physicist who greatly contributed to vital developments of optical physics, passed away on 16 December 2018. He was born in 1944 in Moscow, USSR, to the family of the famous physicist Yakov B. Zeldovich. In 1987 Boris Zeldovich was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1994 he moved to the United States to become a full professor at the University of Central Florida/CREOL.
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