Boris Zeldovich

Boris Zeldovich
Born
Boris Yakovlevich Zeldovich

23 April 1944
Moscow, Soviet Union
(present-day Russia)
Died16 December 2018(2018-12-16) (aged 74)
United States
CitizenshipRussia, United States
Alma materMoscow State University
AwardsUSSR State Award (1983)
Max Born Award (1997)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Non-linear optics
Optical waveguides
InstitutionsP.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of RAS
University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics

Boris Yakovlevich Zeldovich (Russian: Бори́с Я́ковлевич Зельдо́вич; 23 April 1944 – 16 December 2018) was a Russian-American physicist and a son of the famous Soviet physicist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich. He was doctor of the Physical and Mathematical sciences (from 1981) and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1] Since 1994 Zeldovich worked as a professor at the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida.[2] During his lifetime he received a number of prestigious awards, including the USSR State Prize in 1983 and the Max Born Award in Physical Optics from the Optical Society (OSA) in 1997[2][3] for his contributions to the fields of non-linear optics, optical waveguide theory and optical holography. B.Zeldovich predicted and discovered, experimentally, the giant optical nonlinearity of liquid crystals, which is 1010 times stronger than for usual media and is the co-discoverer of optical phase conjugation.[2][4][5] He died on 16 December 2018 at the age of 74.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ^ "Zeldovich, Boris Yakovlevich". Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Dr. Boris Y. Zeldovich". CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  3. ^ V. S. Boge; V. A. Chernozemtsev, eds. (2001). "Zeldovich Boris Yakovlevich". Chelyabinsk. Entsiklopediya (in Russian). Chelyabinsk: Kamennyi Poyas. ISBN 5-88771-026-8. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. ^ Zel’dovich, Boris Ya.; Pilipetsky, Nikolai F.; Shkunov, Vladimir V. (1985). "Principles of Phase Conjugation". Springer Series in Optical Sciences. 42. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-38959-0. ISBN 978-3-662-13573-0. ISSN 0342-4111.
  5. ^ Zel’dovich, Boris Ya; Tabiryan, N. V. (1985-12-01). "Orientational optical nonlinearity of liquid crystals". Physics-Uspekhi. 28 (12): 1059–1083. ISSN 1063-7869.
  6. ^ "Professor Boris Zeldovich passes away at age 74". CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics. 18 December 2018. Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  7. ^ "In Memoriam: Boris Zeldovich, 1944–2018". OSA: The Optical Society. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  8. ^ "In Memoriam: Boris Zel'dovich". SPIE: The International Society for Optics and Photonics. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  9. ^ Baranova, Nadia; Glebov, Leon; Kaplan, Alexander; Tabiryan, Nelson (1 March 2019). "Remembering Boris Zeldovich: 1944–2018" (PDF). Optics & Photonics News (OPN). The Optical Society. Archived from the original on 2023-04-29. Retrieved 26 June 2019.