Alexei Fridman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexei Fridman

Physicist, astrophysicist

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1940

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 29-Oct-2010

Profession: astronomer, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Alexey Maksimovich Fridman was a Soviet physicist specializing in astrophysics, physics of gravitating systems and plasma physics.
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 hydrodynamic theory of the spiral structure in galaxies.
Fridman worked at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, INASAN, and was professor of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Moscow State University.