Boris Zeldovich

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]

Boris Zeldovich
Born	Boris Yakovlevich Zeldovich 23 April 1944 Moscow, Soviet Union (present-day Russia)
Died	16 December 2018(2018-12-16) (aged 74) United States
Citizenship	Russia, United States
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Awards	USSR State Award (1983) Max Born Award (1997)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Non-linear optics Optical waveguides
Institutions	P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of RAS University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics