Nikolai Shakura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nikolai Shakura

Russian astronomer

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1945

Place of Birth: Svietlahorsk District, Belarus

Profession: physicist, astrophysicist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (??????? ???????? ??????; born October 7, 1945 in Belarus SSR) is a Russian astrophysicist.
He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University.
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[1][2].