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by lostmsu 597 days ago
The second link reignited my bias for Zeldovich as not having sufficient public recognition. I previously knew him as the originator of the idea of Hawking radiation (he predicted it around Kerr black holes, and told Hawking about that), but it looks like he also had major contributions to both the Soviet nuclear project and the vacuum energy problem (as you say still unsolved).