Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich was a prolific Soviet physicist. 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. He was born in Minsk (now Belarus). Four months later his family moved to Saint Petersburg (Leningrad from 1924-1991). Wikipedia
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