Selected works of Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich

This two-volume set contains over 100 articles spanning half a century of work by the late Soviet scientist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich. Author of over 20 books and more than 500 scientific articles, Zeldovich made fundamental contributions in chemical catalysis and kinetics, combustion and the hydrodynamics of explosive phenomena, nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy, the physics of elementary particles and the large-scale structure of the universe and cosmology. Commentaries by the author and the editors are included with each paper, serving to enhance both the historical and pedagogical value of this edition.