Selected Works of Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich 2 V Set: Two Volume Set

This two-volume set contains over 100 articles spanning half a century of work by the late Soviet scientist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich. Author of over 20 books and more than 500 scientific articles, Zeldovich made fundamental contributions in chemical catalysis and kinetics, combustion and the hydrodynamics of explosive phenomena, nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy, the physics of elementary particles and the large-scale structure of the universe and cosmology. Review Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Co-Winner of the 2015 Gruber Cosmology Prize for Theoretical and Experimental Explorations of the Universe (with John Carlstrom and Lyman Page), The Gruber Foundation