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Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (Николай Иванович Шакура; born October 7, 1945 in
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jackph/2004f/Universe_of_disks.html#toc]. 1945 births Living people Russian astronomers Russian physicists Moscow State University faculty {{Russia-scientist-stub
Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (Николай Иванович Шакура; born October 7, 1945 in Belarus SSR
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...
) is a Russian astrophysicist. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics
Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the he ...
department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute
The Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Государственный астрономический институт имени Штернберга in Russian), also known as GAISh (ГАИШ), is a research institution in Moscow, Russia, a divisi ...
, Moscow University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
. As a well-known specialist in the theory of accretion disks
An accretion disk is a structure (often a circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body. The central body is typically a star. Friction, uneven irradiance, magnetohydrodynamic effects, and other fo ...
, as well as X-ray binaries
X-ray binaries are a class of binary stars that are luminous in X-rays.
The X-rays are produced by matter falling from one component, called the ''donor'' (usually a relatively normal star), to the other component, called the ''accretor'', which ...
, together with Rashid Sunyaev
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev ( tt-Cyrl, Рәшит Гали улы Сөнәев, russian: Раши́д Али́евич Сюня́ев; born 1 March 1943 in Tashkent, USSR) is a German, Soviet, and Russian astrophysicist of Tatar descent. He got his ...
, he is particularly famous as the developer of the standard theory of disk accretionhttp://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jackph/2004f/Universe_of_disks.html#toc]. 1945 births Living people Russian astronomers Russian physicists Moscow State University faculty {{Russia-scientist-stub