Alexander Shlyakhter
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Russian physicist and risk analyst
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- PhD Physics Moscow State University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Isaakovich Shlyakhter was a Russian nuclear physicist and risk analyst. Shlyakhter is best known for discovering empirical evidence for the constancy of fundamental constants. While still a student in Leningrad, he observed that the products of past nuclear reactions at a natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, Gabon demonstrate that the fine-structure constant α has changed less than 10−17 per year over the last two billion years. He published the finding in a letter to Nature in 1976. Freeman Dyson later wrote that Shlyakhter had "revolutionized the subject" of variation in physical constants.
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