Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura
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Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (Николай Иванович Шакура) was born in Belarus SSR on October 7, 1945. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics
department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute
, Moscow University. A well-known specialist in theory of accretion and in astrophysics of x-ray binaries, together with Rashid Sunyaev
he is particularly famous as the developer of the standard theory of disk accretionhttp://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-4/p78a.htmlhttp://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jackph/2004f/Universe_of_disks.html#toc.
Astrophysics
Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...
department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute
Sternberg Astronomical Institute
The Sternberg Astronomical Institute , also known as GAISh , is a research institution in Moscow, Russia, a division of Moscow State University. The institute is named after astronomer Pavel Karlovich Shternberg.The asteroid 14789 GAISH was named in its honour.-External links:*...
, Moscow University. A well-known specialist in theory of accretion and in astrophysics of x-ray binaries, together with Rashid Sunyaev
Rashid Sunyaev
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, on March 1, 1943 to a Tatar family, and educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Moscow State University . He became a professor at MIPT in 1974...
he is particularly famous as the developer of the standard theory of disk accretionhttp://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-4/p78a.htmlhttp://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~jackph/2004f/Universe_of_disks.html#toc.