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Yakov Zeldovich

Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist1914 to 1987

Wikidata names Lev Landau as doctoral advisor and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Lev Landau

Students on Wikidata13

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Gurgen Askaryan
born 1928
stated by Wikidata
Semyon Gershteyn
born 1929
stated by Wikidata
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born 1933
stated by Wikidata
Viktor Mikhaylov
born 1934
stated by Wikidata
Igor Novikov
born 1935
stated by Wikidata
Gennady Bisnovaty-Kogan
born 1941
stated by Wikidata
Rashid Sunyaev
born 1943
stated by Wikidata
Nikolai Shakura
born 1945
stated by Wikidata
Vladimir Fortov
born 1946
stated by Wikidata
Alexei Starobinski
born 1948
stated by Wikidata
Aleksandr Polnarev
born 1949
stated by Wikidata
Sergei Kopeikin
born 1956
stated by Wikidata
Vadim Bronislavovich Librovich

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Abram Ioffe
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Nikolay Semyonov

Taught7

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Gurgen Askaryan
born 1928
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Leonid Hryshchuk
born 1941
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Rashid Sunyaev
born 1943
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Aleksandr Ruzmaikin
born 1944
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Nikolai Shakura
born 1945
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexei Starobinski
born 1948
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Dmitry Sokolov
born 1949

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataLev Landau
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAbram Ioffe
3 steps up
stated by WikidataWilhelm Röntgen
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAugust Kundtstated by WikidataGustav Zeuner

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 25 people: 25 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1946 to 1948
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics
worked
until 1948
National Research Nuclear University
worked
undated
Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University
studied
undated
Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
studied
undated
Saint Petersburg State University
studied
undated
Lomonosov Moscow State University
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, astrophysicist, inventor, chemist, university teacher
fields: physical chemistry, physics
degrees: Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics
awards: Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, 1943, Order of Lenin, 1949, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1949, Order of the October Revolution, 1984, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1945, Order of the Badge of Honour, 1954, Medal "Veteran of Labour", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Kurchatov Medal, 1977, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1984, Bruce Medal, 1983, Lenin Prize, 1957, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, 1954, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, 1956, Order of Lenin, 1962, Order of Lenin, 1974, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1964, Stalin Prize, 1949, Stalin Prize, 1951, Stalin Prize, 1953, Numa Manson Medal, 1977, Friedmann Prize, 2002, ICTP Dirac Medal, 1985, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1979, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1954, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1956, State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, 1951, State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, 1953
member of: Russian Academy of Sciences, 1946 to 1958, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1958, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 1972, Royal Society of London, from 1979, National Academy of Sciences, from 1979, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1979, American Philosophical Society, from 1979, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, from 1983, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, International Astronomical Union
Wikipedia: in 53 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaYakov Zeldovich
stated by WikidataWikidataQ366471
stated by WikidataVIAF54197725
stated by WikidataGND131603795
stated by WikidataIdRef071280073
stated by WikidataISNI0000000416936639

papers

stated by WikidataScopus6603194240

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project223789

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q366471,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Yakov Zeldovich: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q366471},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Yakov Zeldovich: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q366471