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Nikolai Shakura

Russian astronomer · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Born 1945 · age 81

Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura is a Russian astrophysicist. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University.

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Honoured Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation
VDNKh silver medal
Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
State Prize of the Russian Federation

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As a well-known specialist in the theory of accretion disks, as well as X-ray binaries, together with Rashid Sunyaev, he is particularly famous as the developer of the standard theory of disk accretion.

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Born 1945 · age 81

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