Roald Sagdeev
Physicist, Academic
1932 –
Who is Roald Sagdeev?
Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev is a Soviet and Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sagdeev graduated from Moscow State University. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has worked at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1989. He is also currently a Senior Advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, where he assists clients with issues involving Russia and countries in the former Soviet Union. Sagdeev was married to, and divorced from, Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late American president. Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics.
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- Born
- Dec 26, 1932
Moscow - Spouses
- Susan Eisenhower
(1990 - 2008)
- Susan Eisenhower
- Nationality
- Russia
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Employment
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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