| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Moscow_State_University 
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                                | gptkbp:awardReceived | gptkb:Lomonosov_Gold_Medal gptkb:Lenin_Prize
 gptkb:Stalin_Prize
 gptkb:Hero_of_Socialist_Labour
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1914-03-08 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 1987-12-02 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:Nikolay_Semyonov 
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                                | gptkbp:fieldOfWork | gptkb:cosmology astrophysics
 physical chemistry
 physics
 
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                                | gptkbp:fullName | gptkb:Yakov_Borisovich_Zel’dovich 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:Andrei_Sakharov gptkb:Igor_Novikov
 gptkb:Vitaly_Ginzburg
 gptkb:Alexei_Starobinsky
 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:Zel’dovich–von_Neumann–Döring_detonation_theory gptkb:Zel’dovich_approximation
 gptkb:Zel’dovich_pancake
 work on black holes
 work on cosmology
 work on nuclear chain reactions
 work on thermonuclear weapons
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:Russian_Academy_of_Sciences gptkb:Royal_Society_of_London_(foreign_member)
 gptkb:US_National_Academy_of_Sciences
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:Soviet 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:chemist gptkb:physicist
 gptkb:astronomer
 
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                                | gptkbp:placeOfBirth | gptkb:Minsk 
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                                | gptkbp:placeOfDeath | gptkb:Moscow 
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                                | gptkbp:publishedIn | gptkb:Zel’dovich,_Y._B._&_Novikov,_I._D._(1971)._Relativistic_Astrophysics. gptkb:Zel’dovich,_Y._B._(1946)._The_Theory_of_Detonation.
 gptkb:Zel’dovich,_Y._B._(1967)._Generation_of_Waves_by_a_Rotating_Body.
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Physics_of_Shock_Waves_and_High-Temperature_Hydrodynamic_Phenomena gptkb:Stars_and_Relativity
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Ya. B. Zel’dovich 
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