Background
Zel'dovich, Iakov was born on March 8, 1914 in Minsk.
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Iakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
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Graduated from Leningrad University.
Career
Leading physicist. Made immense contributions in the fields of the physics of explosions, elementary particles and astrophysics. Involved in a number of military projects. Professor at Moscow University.
Member of many foreign scientific institutions. Cambridge University awarded him an honorary doctorate. Tried in his later years to emigrate, but was twice prevented.
Religion
Religion gets people to believe something untrue.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
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Nationality
USSR