Roald Sagdeev

Russian physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1932 · age 93

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.

Roald Sagdeev is read about 64 times a day, in 16 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 8 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare Claim

A life in dates

2008Great Immigrants AwardAward2001James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma PhysicsAward1995Leo Szilard Lectureship AwardAward1987Allan D. Emil Memorial AwardAward1974Honorary Doctor of Toulouse-III UniversityAward1932Born26 December 1932

People around Roald

Also in Deutsch

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

Great Immigrants Award2008

James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics2001

Leo Szilard Lectureship Award1995

Allan D. Emil Memorial Award1987

Honorary Doctor of Toulouse-III University1974

Order of Lenin

Hero of Socialist Labour

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Lenin Prize

Order of the Polar Star

Friendship Order

Order of the Red Star

Nizami Ganjavi Gold Medal

About this person

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).

Country

United States