Vladimir E. Zakharov

'''Vladimir Evgen'evich Zakharov''' (; 1 August 1939 – 20 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and physicist. He was Regents' Professor of mathematics at The University of Arizona, director of the Mathematical Physics Sector at the Lebedev Physical Institute, and was on the committee of the Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award. His research interests covered physical aspects of nonlinear wave theory in plasmas, hydrodynamics, oceanology, geophysics, solid state physics, optics, and general relativity.

Zakharov was awarded the Dirac Medal in 2003 for his contributions to the theory of turbulence, with regard to the exact results and the prediction of inverse cascades, and for "putting the theory of wave turbulence on a firm mathematical ground by finding turbulence spectra as exact solutions and solving the stability problem, and in introducing the notion of inverse and dual cascades in wave turbulence".

Vladimir Zakharov was also a poet. He published several books of poetry in Russia and his works regularly appeared in periodicals, such as ''Novy Mir'', in the 1990s and 2000s. A collection of his poetry in an English translation ''The Paradise for Clouds'' was published in the UK in 2009. Provided by Wikipedia