Alexei Fridman
Physicist, astrophysicist (1940-2010) · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Died at 70
Alexey Maksimovich Fridman was a Soviet and Russian physicist specializing in astrophysics, physics of gravitating systems and plasma physics.
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He discovered new types of instabilities in gravitating media, created the theory of planetary rings and predicted the existence of small Uranus satellites that were later discovered. He also developed the hydrodynamic theory of spiral structure in galaxies. Fridman worked at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, INASAN, and was professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and at Moscow State University.
