Roald Sagdeev

Roald Sagdeev
Born
Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev

(1932-12-26) December 26, 1932 (age 91)
Moscow, Russia SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian, Azerbaijani
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forPlasma physics
Spouse
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(m. 1990; div. 2007)​
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsKurchatov Institute
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Russian Space Research Institute
University of Maryland
Doctoral studentsVladimir Zakharov, Alexei Fridman

Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (Russian: Роальд Зиннурович Сагдеев, Tatar: Роальд Зиннур улы Сәгъдиев; born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[1] He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sagdeev graduated from Moscow State University. He is a member of both the Russian Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[2] He has worked at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1989 in the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He is also currently a senior advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, where he assists clients with issues involving Russia and countries in the former Soviet Union. Sagdeev was married to, and divorced from, Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower.[3][4] Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2001).

  1. ^ Russian: Biography
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  3. ^ "Davis Lecture -- Susan Eisenhower". www.samford.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12.
  4. ^ "FAQ | Susan Eisenhower". www.susaneisenhower.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16.