Viktor Sobolev (scientist)

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Viktor Sobolev

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1915|9|2}}

| birth_place = Petrograd, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1999|1|7|1915|9|2}}

| death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia

| fields = Astronomy, physics

| workplaces = Saint Petersburg State University

| alma_mater = Leningrad State University

| known_for = Astrophysics

| awards = Hero of Socialist Labour (1985)
Order of Lenin
Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour

}}

Viktor Viktorovich Sobolev ({{langx|ru|Виктор Викторович Соболев}}; September 2, 1915 – January 7, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist,{{Cite journal|last1=Kholtygin|first1=Alexander F.|last2=Mishchenko|first2=Michael I.|date=November 2016|title=Preface: Viktor V. Sobolev and his scientific legacy|url=https://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/mmishchenko/publications/2016_JQSRT_183_1.pdf|journal=Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer|language=en|volume=183|pages=1–3|doi=10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.04.022|bibcode=2016JQSRT.183....1K}} Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1981), Hero of Socialist Labour (1985).