Alexei Fridman

Alexey Fridman
Алексей Фридман
Fridman in 2008
Born	(1940-02-17)17 February 1940 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	29 October 2010(2010-10-29) (aged 70) Jerusalem, Israel
Citizenship	Soviet Union Russia Israel
Education	Sc.D., Physics and Mathematics (1972)
Alma mater	Novosibirsk State University
Known for	Astrophysics, physics of gravitating systems, plasma physics
Awards	USSR State Prize (1989) State Prize of the Russian Federation (2003; 2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics, physics
Institutions	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, MSU, Institute of Astronomy RAS[1]
Doctoral advisor	Roald Sagdeev
Website	http://fpfe.mipt.ru/bazekafedras/ptf/ptf.html

Alexey Maksimovich Fridman (Russian: Алексей Максимович Фридман; 17 February 1940 – 29 October 2010) was a Soviet and Russian 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 the hydrodynamic theory of spiral structure in galaxies. Fridman worked at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, INASAN,^[1] and was professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and at Moscow State University.