Andrei Linde

Andrei Dmitrievich Linde (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Линде; born March 2, 1948 in Moscow ) is a Russian cosmologist and one of the founders of the inflationary theory of the universe.

Life

Linde was the son of the physicist Dmitri Pavlovich Linde and physics student Irina Wjatscheslawowna Rakobolskaja to the world. He studied from 1966 to 1971 Physics at the Lomonosov University in Moscow. He then worked at the Lebedev Institute, where he habilitated in 1975 (Russian doctorate ) from 1975 to 1985, Professor did. From 1989 to 1990 he worked at CERN, and he is since 1990 professor of physics at Stanford University in California. There, his wife, the theoretical physicist Renata Kallosh works. The couple has two sons, Dmitry and Alexander.

Awards

Linde was awarded in 2001 with the Oskar Klein Medal for Physics, University of Stockholm, 2002, he was awarded the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) of the ICTP and 2004, the Gruber Prize for Cosmology, he was awarded for the development of the theory of inflation. Since 2008 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was awarded the Fundamental Physics Prize.

Works

  • Inflation and Quantum Cosmology, Academic Press, Boston, 1990
  • Particle Physics and Cosmology inflationary, Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur, 1990
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