# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roald-sagdeev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:17:36.346Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roald-sagdeev"
name: "Roald Sagdeev"
slug: "roald-sagdeev"
description: "Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 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. 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. Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2001)."
tagline: "Russian physicist (born 1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roald_Sagdeev_(2013-05-30).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1932-12-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.586206896551724
  historical:           13.20396533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump