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Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either o ...

s and astrophysicists includes the famous astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists from the

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, the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

and the

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* Tateos Agekian, one of the pioneers of Russian and world Stellar dynamics, discoverer of two evolutionary sequences of stellar systems: nearly spherical and strongly flattened * Vladimir Albitsky, discovered a significant number of asteroids * Viktor Ambartsumian, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics, discoverer of stellar associations, founder of Byurakan Observatory in

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* Andrejs Auzāns, director of the Tashkent observatory, 1911-1916

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* Nikolai P. Barabashov, co-author of the ground breaking publication of the first pictures of the far side of the Moon in 1961, called ''Atlas of the Other Side of the Moon''; a crater and a planet were named after him *

Vladimir Belinski Vladimir Alekseevich Belinski (last name is also spelled Belinsky, russian: Владимир Алексеевич Белинский; born 26 March 1941) is a Russian and Italian theoretical physicist involved in research in cosmology and general ...

, an author of the BKL singularity model of the Universe evolution * Igor Belkovich, made contributions to astronomy; the crater Bel'kovich on the Moon is named after him * Aristarkh Belopolsky, invented a

spectrograph An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify mat ...

based on the

Doppler effect The Doppler effect or Doppler shift (or simply Doppler, when in context) is the change in frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the wave source. It is named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, ...

, among the first photographers of stellar spectra * Sergey Belyavsky, discovered the bright naked-eye comet C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky); discovered and co-discovered a number of asteroids *

Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan is an astrophysicist. He is known for predicting binary radio pulsars. Bisnovatyi-Kogan was a student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from 1958-1964. He was a postgraduate student at Moscow Institute ...

, first determined the maximum mass of a hot neutron star * Sergey Blazhko, discovered a secondary variation of the amplitude and period of some RR Lyrae stars and related pulsating variables, now known as the Blazhko effect * Semion Braude, co-developed large-scale radio interferometers for precise examination of extraterrestrial radio sources * Fyodor Bredikhin, developed the theory of

comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or Coma (cometary), coma, and sometimes also a Comet ta ...

tails,

meteor A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are defined as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than this are classified as mic ...

s and

meteor shower A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extr ...

s, a director of the

Pulkovo Observatory The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory (russian: Пулковская астрономическая обсерватория, Pulkovskaya astronomicheskaya observatoriya), officially named the Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academ ...

* Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, theoretical physicist; pioneer of quantum gravity; author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors, quantum electrodynamics and cosmology * Jacob Bruce, statesman, naturalist and astronomer, founder of the first

observatory An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysical, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. H ...

in Russia (in the Sukharev Tower) Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin

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* Lyudmila Chernykh, astronomer, discovered 268

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the Solar System#Inner solar system, inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic o ...

s * Nikolai Chernykh, astronomer, discovered 537 asteroids and two comets * Aleksandr Chudakov, co-discoverer of the Earth's radiation belt

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Denis Denisenko Denis Denisenko (born January 16, 1971) is a Russian astronomer of the late 20th – early 21st century, discoverer of 10 supernovae, more than 150 variable stars, an asteroid, and a comet. Biography Born in 1971 in Moscow, Denisenko graduated ...

, astronomer, author of more than 25 scientific articles and a presenter at five international conferences * A. G. Doroshkevich, along with Igor Novikov, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation as a detectable phenomenon * Alexander Dubyago, expert in theoretical astrophysics; the lunar crater Dubyago is named after him and his father,

Dmitry Ivanovich Dubyago Dmitry Ivanovich Dubyago (''Дмитрий Иванович Дубяго'' in Russian) (September 21 ( N.S. October 3), 1849 – October 22, 1918) was a Russian astronomer and expert in theoretical astrophysics, astrometry, and gravimetry. ...

Dmitry Dubyago Dmitry Ivanovich Dubyago (''Дмитрий Иванович Дубяго'' in Russian language, Russian) (September 21 (New Style, N.S. October 3), 1849 – October 22, 1918) was a Russian astronomer and expert in theoretical astrophysics, a ...

, expert in theoretical astrophysics, astrometry, and gravimetry; a crater on the Moon is named after him and his son

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* Vasily Engelhardt, researched comets, asteroids, nebulae, and star clusters, in an observatory he built himself

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* Vasily Fesenkov, founded the Alma-Ata (now Tien Shan) astrophysical observatory, and was the first to make a study of Zodiacal light using photometry, and suggested a theory of its dynamics * Kirill Florensky, head of Comparative Planetology at the Vernadsky Institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences; the crater Florensky on the Moon is named after him * Alexander Friedmann, mathematician and cosmologist, discovered the expanding-universe solution to the

general relativity General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. ...

field equations.; authored the FLRW metric of

Universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. A ...

Alexei Fridman Alexey Maksimovich Fridman (17 February 1940 – 29 October 2010) was a Soviet physicist specializing in astrophysics, physics of gravitating systems and plasma physics. He discovered new types of instabilities in gravitating media, created the ...

, predicted existence of smaller satellites around

Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus (Caelus), who, according to Greek mythology, was the great-grandfather of Ares (Mars), grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter) and father of Cronu ...

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* George Gamow, theoretical physicist and cosmologist, discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and Gamow factor in

stellar nucleosynthesis Stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation (nucleosynthesis) of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred since the original creation of hydrogen, helium and lithium during the Big Bang. As a ...

, introduced the

Big Bang nucleosynthesis In physical cosmology, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (abbreviated BBN, also known as primordial nucleosynthesis) is the production of nuclei other than those of the lightest isotope of hydrogen ( hydrogen-1, 1H, having a single proton as a nucleus) ...

theory, predicted

cosmic microwave background In Big Bang cosmology the cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR) is electromagnetic radiation that is a remnant from an early stage of the universe, also known as "relic radiation". The CMB is faint cosmic background radiation filling all spac ...

Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург, link=no; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with ...

, co-developed the theory of superconductivity, the theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas, and a theory of the origin of cosmic radiation * Sergey Glazenap, astronomer; a crater on the Moon and the minor planet 857 Glasenappia are named after him * Alexander A. Gurshtein, developed a concept of history of constellations and the zodiac * Matvey Gusev, the first to prove the non-sphericity of the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width ...

, pioneer of photography in astronomy

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* Naum Idelson, astronomer

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* Benjamin Jekhowsky, discovered a number of asteroids; made more than 190 scientific publications; the asteroid

1606 Jekhovsky Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film dir ...

is named after him

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* Lyudmila Karachkina, discovered a number of asteroids, including the Amor asteroid

5324 Lyapunov 53 may refer to: * 53 (number) * one of the years 53 BC, AD 53, 1953, 2053 * FiftyThree, an American privately held technology company that specializes in tools for mobile creation and visual thinking * 53rd Regiment Alabama Cavalry * 53rd Regiment ...

10031 Vladarnolda 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

and the Trojan asteroid

3063 Makhaon 3063 Makhaon is a large Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 4 August 1983, by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula. T ...

* Nikolai Kardashev, astrophysicist, inventor of Kardashev scale for ranking the space civilizations * Isaak Khalatnikov, an author of the BKL singularity model of the Universe evolution * Viktor Knorre, astronomer, discovered four asteroids * Marian Kowalski, first to measure the rotation of the

Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked ey ...

* Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, astronomer, observed the transient lunar phenomenon * Georgij A. Krasinsky, astronomer, researched planetary motions and ephemeris *

Feodosy Krasovsky Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky (russian: Феодосий Николаевич Красовский) ( – October 1, 1948) was a Russian and later Soviet astronomer and geodesist. He was born in Galich. In 1900 he graduated from the ''Mezhevoy'' ...

, astronomer and geodesist; measured the

Krasovsky ellipsoid The SK-42 reference system also known as the Krasovsky 1940 ellipsoid, is a coordinate system established in the Soviet Union in 1942 as ''Systema koordinat'' (russian: Система координат 1942 года), and provides parameters which ...

, a coordinate system used in the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

and the post-Soviet states *

Yevgeny Krinov Yevgeny Leonidovich Krinov (russian: Евгений Леонидович Кринов) (3 March 1906 – 2 January 1984), Doctor of Geological Science, D.G.S., was a Soviet Union, Soviet Russian astronomer and geologist, born in Otyassy (russian ...

, astronomer, renowned meteorite researcher; the mineral Krinovite, discovered in 1966, was named after him

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Anders Johan Lexell Anders Johan Lexell (24 December 1740 – ) was a Finnish-Swedish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent most of his life in Imperial Russia, where he was known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel (Андрей Иванович Лексе ...

, astronomer and mathematician; researcher of

celestial mechanics Celestial mechanics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of objects in outer space. Historically, celestial mechanics applies principles of physics (classical mechanics) to astronomical objects, such as stars and planets, to ...

and comet astronomy; proved that Uranus is a planet rather than a comet *

Andrei Linde Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Linde is one of the ...

, created the Universe chaotic inflation theory *

Evgeny Lifshitz Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz (russian: Евге́ний Миха́йлович Ли́фшиц; February 21, 1915, Kharkiv, Russian Empire – October 29, 1985, Moscow, Russian SFSR) was a leading Soviet physicist and brother of the physicist ...

, an author of the BKL singularity model of the Universe evolution *

Mikhail Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; russian: Михаил (Михайло) Васильевич Ломоносов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ , a=Ru-Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov.ogg; – ) was a Russian polymath, scientist and wri ...

polymath, inventor of the off-axis reflecting telescope, discoverer of the atmosphere of Venus * Mikhail Lyapunov, astronomer * Kronid Lyubarsky, worked on the Soviet program of interplanetary exploration of Mars

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* Benjamin Markarian, discovered Markarian's Chain * Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, inventor of the Maksutov telescope *

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikhailov (April 26 (N.S. date, April 14 O.S.), 1888, Morshansk - September 29, 1983) was an astronomer who was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He worked at Pulkovo Observatory from 1947 to 1982. He was its di ...

, credited with leading the post-war revival of the

* Nikolay Moiseyev, expert in

, worked on mathematical methods of celestial calculations and theory of comet formation

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* Grigory Neujmin, discovered 74 asteroids, and most notably 951 Gaspra and

762 Pulcova 762 Pulcova is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Grigoriy N. Neujmin in 1913, and is named after Pulkovo Observatory, near Saint Petersburg. Pulcova is 137 km in diameter, and is a C-type asteroid, which means that it is dark in col ...

* Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle, an important contribution to the theory of

time travel Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a ...

* Boris Numerov, created various astronomic and mineralogical instruments, as well as various algorithms and methods that bear his name

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Pavel Petrovich Parenago Pavel Petrovich Parenago (20 March 1906 – 5 January 1960) was a Soviet scientist, astronomer, and professor. He served as the head of the Department of Stellar Astronomy at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and a Corresponding Member of th ...

, known for contributions to the field of galactic astronomy * Yevgeny Perepyolkin, observed the proper motion of stars with respect to extragalactic nebula *

Solomon Pikelner Solomon Borisovich Pikelner (russian: Соломон Борисович Пикельнер) (February 6, 1921 - November 19, 1975) was a Soviet astronomer who had made a significant contribution to the theory of the interstellar medium, Astrophysi ...

, made a significant contribution to the theory of the interstellar medium, solar plasma physics, stellar atmospheres, and magnetohydrodynamics * Elena V. Pitjeva, expert in the field of Solar System dynamics and celestial mechanics

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Viktor Safronov Viktor Sergeevich Safronov (russian: Ви́ктор Серге́евич Сафро́нов) (born Velikie Luki; 11 October 1917 in Russia – 18 September 1999 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet astronomer who put forward the low-mass-nebula model of ...

, astronomer and cosmologist, author of the planetesimal hypothesis of planet formation * Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer, discovered five comets, and found one NGC object * Andrei Severny, known for his work on

solar flares A solar flare is an intense localized eruption of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere. Flares occur in active regions and are often, but not always, accompanied by coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, and other sola ...

and astronomical observations from artificial satellites * Nikolai Shakura, developed theory of accretion and astrophysics of x-ray binaries, co-developed the standard theory of disk accretion *

Grigory Shayn Grigory Abramovich Shajn (russian: Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19, 1892 – August 4, 1956) was a Soviet Union, Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English language, English transliteration, his surname would be given ...

, astronomer and astrophysicist, the first director of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, co-developed a method for measurement of

stellar rotation Stellar rotation is the angular motion of a star about its axis. The rate of rotation can be measured from the spectrum of the star, or by timing the movements of active features on the surface. The rotation of a star produces an equatorial bulge ...

Vladislav Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich Shevchenko (russian: Владислав Владимирович Шевченко, born 18 June 1940) is a Russian astronomer who specializes in lunar exploration. He is the Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research ...

, astronomer, specialized in lunar exploration * Iosif Shklovsky, astronomer and astrophysicist, author of several discoveries in the fields of

radio astronomy Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The first detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was in 1933, when Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories reported radiation comi ...

and

cosmic rays Cosmic rays are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light. They originate from the Sun, from outside of the Solar System in our ow ...

, extraterrestrial life researcher * Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova, co-discovered the periodic comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004Казакова, Р.К. Памяти Николая Степановича Черных'. Труды Государст ...

; discovered various asteroids; the asteroid

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was named in her honor * Friedrich Wilhelm Struve, astronomer and geodesist, founder and the first director of the

, prominent researcher and discoverer of new double stars, initiated the construction of 2,820 km long

Struve Geodetic Arc The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over , which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc. The chain was established ...

, progenitor of the Struve family of astronomers * Otto Lyudvigovich Struve, astronomer and astrophysicist, co-developed a method for measurement of

, directed several observatories in the U.S. PGRS 2 081 Struve - crop

Otto Wilhelm von Struve Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name is normally given as Otto Vasil'evich Struve (Отто Васильевич Струв ...

, astronomer, director of the

, discovered over 500 double stars * Rashid Sunyaev, astrophysicist, co-predicted the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect of CMB distortion

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Gavriil Tikhov Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (1 May 1875 – 25 January 1960) was a Soviet astronomer who was a pioneer in astrobiology and is considered to be the father of astrobotany. He worked as an observer at the Pulkovo Observatory from 1906 until 1941. Aft ...

, invented the feathering spectrograph; one of the first to use color filters to increase the contrast of surface details on planets

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* George Volkoff, predicted the existence of neutron stars * Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, discovered the absorption of light by interstellar dust, author of the '' Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies'' *

Alexander Vyssotsky Alexander Nikolayevich Vyssotsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Высо́тский, 23 May 1888 – 31 December 1973) was a Russian-American astronomer. Born in Moscow, in 1923 he moved to the United States, where he eve ...

, created first list of nearby stars identified not by their motions in the sky, but by their intrinsic, spectroscopic, characteristics

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* Avenir Aleksandrovich Yakovkin, astronomer *

Ivan Yarkovsky Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky ( pl, Jan Jarkowski) (24 May 1844, Asveya, Vitebsk Governorate – 22 January 1902, Heidelberg) was a Polish Russian civil engineer. Born from a Polish family in Asveya (Russian Empire, now Belarus), he worked for a Russ ...

, discovered the YORP and

Yarkovsky effect The Yarkovsky effect is a force acting on a rotating body in space caused by the anisotropic emission of thermal photons, which carry momentum. It is usually considered in relation to meteoroids or small asteroids (about 10 cm to 10 km ...

s of

meteoroid A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are defined as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than this are classified as mic ...

s or asteroids

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* Aleksandr Zaitsev, coined the term '' Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence'', conducted the first intercontinental

radar astronomy Radar astronomy is a technique of observing nearby astronomical objects by reflecting radio waves or microwaves off target objects and analyzing their reflections. Radar astronomy differs from ''radio astronomy'' in that the latter is a passive ob ...

experiment, transmitted the

Cosmic Call Cosmic commonly refers to: * The cosmos, a concept of the universe Cosmic may also refer to: Media * ''Cosmic'' (album), an album by Bazzi * Afro/Cosmic music * "Cosmic", a song by Kylie Minogue from the album '' X'' * CosM.i.C, a member of ...

s and Teen Age Message *

Yakov Zel'dovich Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich ( be, Я́каў Бары́савіч Зяльдо́віч, russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Зельдо́вич; 8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987), also known as YaB, was a leading Soviet physicist of Bel ...

, physicist, astrophysicist and cosmologist, the first to suggest that accretion discs around massive

black hole A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can defo ...

s are responsible for the

quasar A quasar is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN). It is pronounced , and sometimes known as a quasi-stellar object, abbreviated QSO. This emission from a galaxy nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole with a mass rangin ...

radiation, co-predicted the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect of CMB distortion Sunyaev

Abram Leonidovich Zelmanov Abraham Zelmanov (May 15, 1913 – February 2, 1987), was a scientist working in the General Theory of Relativity and cosmology. He first constructed, in 1944, the complete mathematical method to calculate physical observable quantities in the ...

, astronomer * Sergei Alexandrovich Zhevakin, identified ionized helium as the valve for the heat engine that drives the pulsation of Cepheid variable stars * Lyudmila Zhuravlyova, discovered a number of asteroids; ranked 43rd by Harvard University's list of those who discovered minor planets; credited with having discovered 200 such bodies *

Felix Ziegel Felix Yurievich Ziegel (russian: Феликс Юрьевич Зигель, 20 March 1920 – 20 November 1988) was a Soviet Union, Soviet researcher, Doctor of Science and docent of Cosmology at the Moscow Aviation Institute, author of more than ...

, author of more than 40 popular books on astronomy and space exploration, generally regarded as a founder of Russian

ufology Ufology ( ) is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors). While there are instances of government, private, and ...

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