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

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. Since 1994 Zeldovich worked as a professor at the College of Optics and Photonics at the

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. During his lifetime he received a number of prestigious awards, including the

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in 1983 and the

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in Physical Optics from the

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(OSA) in 1997. The scientific interests of Boris Zeldovich lay in the fields of

non-linear optics Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in ''nonlinear media'', that is, media in which the polarization density P responds non-linearly to the electric field E of the light. The non-linearity is typica ...

optical waveguide An optical waveguide is a physical structure that guides electromagnetic waves in the optical spectrum. Common types of optical waveguides include optical fiber waveguides, transparent dielectric waveguides made of plastic and glass, liquid light g ...

theory and optical holography. He died on 16 December 2018 at the age of 74.

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