This man names the thermal mechanism of nitrogen oxidation in the atmosphere, and his namesake number is proportional to the effective activation energy and gives the bifurcation point for a propagating thermal front.
This man names the thermal mechanism of nitrogen oxidation in the atmosphere, and his namesake number is proportional to the effective activation energy and gives the bifurcation point for a propagating thermal front. With von Neumann and Doring, he names a model of shock waves, and he showed that after the Big Bang an ellipsoid of gas would collapse along its short axis, leading to the formation of his namesake pancakes. Building on Gliner's work, he showed that the cosmological constant contributes its value times the metric tensor divided by a constant to the energy-momentum tensor. He's the second namesake of a process used to map galaxy clusters, and which transfers energy from electrons to photons in the Cosmic Microwave Background. For 10 points, name this physicist who names a form of inverse Compton scattering with Rashid Sunayev.
This man names the thermal mechanism of nitrogen oxidation in the atmosphere, and his namesake number is proportional to the effective activation energy and gives the bifurcation point for a propagating thermal front.
Yakov {Zeldovich}