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Also known as Andrey Dmitriyevich Linde, Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde

Russian-born American theoretical physicist

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  • Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Russia
Active from
1948-03-02

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  • Many scientists are still ashamed of using the . Just as the friends of were afraid of using the name '', the opponents of the anthropic principle often say that they do not want to use the 'A' in their research.
  • The best available explanation of the observed uniformity of the universe is provided by inflation. However, as soon as this mechanism was proposed, it was realized that inflation, while explaining why our part of the world is so uniform, does not predict that this uniformity must extend to the whole universe ...
  • Why is our universe so homogeneous?Why is it not exactly homogeneous?Why is it isotropic (same in all directions)?Why all of its parts started expanding simultaneously?Why is if flat (Ω = 1)?Why is it so large?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Answered by inflation
  • ... We live for a while in some state which is called ... there is no preferable coordinate system ... there is no preferable choice of time ...

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Key facts

Born
Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde , ( 1948-03-02 ) March 2, 1948 (age 78) , Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Alma mater
Moscow State University
Known for
Work on cosmic inflation , KKLT mechanism
Spouse
Renata Kallosh
Awards
2018 Gamow Prize , 2014 Kavli Prize , 2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics , 2004 Gruber Prize in Cosmology , 2002 Dirac Medal , 2002 Oskar Klein Medal
Fields
Theoretical physics , Physical cosmology
Institutions
Lebedev Physical Institute , CERN , Stanford University
Doctoral advisor
David Kirzhnits

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date of birth
1948-03-02
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Andrej Linde
name in native language
Андрей Дмитриевич Линде
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Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Линде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Linde is one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, as well as the theory of eternal inflation and inflationary multiverse. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Moscow State University. In 1975, Linde was awarded a PhD from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. He worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) since 1989 and moved to the United States in 1990, where he became professor of physics at Stanford University. Among the various awards he has received for his work on inflation, in 2002 he was awarded the Dirac Medal, along with Alan Guth of MIT and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University. In 2004 he received, along with Alan Guth, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for the development of inflationary cosmology. In 2012 he, along with Alan Guth, was an inaugural awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. In 2014 he received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation", together with Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinsky. In 2018 he received the Gamow Prize.

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