Roald Sagdeev

1932 -

country of citizenship: Soviet Union, United States of America, Azerbaijan

languages spoken, written or signed: English, Russian

educated at: MSU Faculty of Physics, National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute

occupation: physicist, politician, university teacher

award received: Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Lenin Prize, Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, Order of the Polar Star, Dostlug Order, орден «За заслуги перед Республикой Татарстан», James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, Order of the Red Star, Great Immigrants

Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (Russian: Роальд Зиннурович Сагдеев, Tatar: Роальд Зиннур улы Сәгъдиев; born 26 December 1932) is a 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 both the Russian Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has worked at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1989 in the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. 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 Dwight D. Eisenhower. Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2001). Source: Wikipedia (en)