Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev (Russian: Борис Борисович Кадомцев; 9 November 1928 – 19 August 1998) was a Soviet and Russian plasma physicist who worked on controlled fusion problems (e.g.

The exact solution to the KP equation was later found by Vladimir Zakharov and Alexei Shabat [de], which helped solve the Schottky problem.

[5] From 1973 until his death in 1998, he was the chair of the plasma physics section of the state committee for the use of nuclear energy.

In 1984, he was awarded the Lenin Prize for his work on the "Theory of Thermonuclear Toroidal Plasma".

In 1998, he received the American Physical Society's James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for "fundamental contributions to plasma turbulence theory, stability and nonlinear theory of MHD and kinetic instabilities in plasmas, and for international leadership in research and teaching of plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion physics".