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Nature 331, 671-672 (25 February 1988) | doi:10.1038/331671a0

A man of universal interests

Andrei Sakharov

  1. Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR.
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The death of Ya. B. Zel'dovich robs physics of one of its guiding lights of the twentieth century. Here Andrei Sakharov reflects on his life and his science, while on p. 673 appears a report of two meetings written by ZeVdovich, in collaboration with A. A. Starobinskii, shortly before his death.