Nikolai Kardashev

Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev (Никола́й Семёнович Кардашёв) (lahir 25 April 1932 di Moskwa) adalah astrofisikawan Rusia (sebelumnya Uni Soviet), dan wakil kepala Russian Space Research Institute.

Pada tahun 1963, Kardashev meneliti quasar CTA-102, the first Soviet effort in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In this work he came up with the idea that some galactic civilizations would be perhaps millions or billions of years ahead of us, and created the Kardashev classification scheme to rank such civilizations. Serious Russian efforts in SETI predate similar programs in the US by some years. Other notable experts in the USSR were Vsevolod Troitskii and Iosif Samuilovich Shklovskii (Kardashev's former professor).

Kardashev became a corresponding (associate) member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Division of General Physics and Astronomy on December 12, 1976. He became a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences on March 21, 1994.

Publications

• Kardashev, Nikolai (1985). "On the Inevitability and the Possible Structures of Supercivilizations" in "The search for extraterrestrial life: Recent developments; Proceedings of the Symposium, Boston, MA,June 18–21, 1984". hlm. 497–504. 

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