Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov

Igor Dmitrievich Novikov (Russian Игорь Дмитриевич Новиков, scientific transliteration Igor Novikov Dmitrievič; born November 10, 1935 in Moscow ) is a Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Career

Igor Novikov received his Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1965, a doctorate in the same subject in 1970. Between 1974 and 1990 he was Head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics at the Space Science Institute in Moscow. He was also head of the department of theoretical astrophysics at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow and professor at the Moscow State University before 1999. Since 1994, Novikov is director of the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics ( TAC ) of the University of Copenhagen.

Since 2005 he is Professor of Astrophysics at Copenhagen University Observatory, where he has been since 1991. Since 1998, Novikov conferred the title of Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In 1964 he published with A. Doroshkevich a proposal for the observation of the cosmic background radiation, which was discovered in 1965 by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson and predicted already in the 1940s by George Gamow and colleagues. He also dealt with the astrophysics of black holes and wrote with Yakov Borisovich Seldowitsch a standard work on theoretical astrophysics. On the problem of time travel, he formulated in the 1980s, the Novikov self- matching principle.

Personal

Igor Novikov is married to Eleonora Kotok, the couple has two children. With his son Dmitri, he wrote a book about the cosmic microwave background. Novikov's father disappeared under the regime of Stalin and his mother lived for two years in the Gulag. He came under the care of Seldowitsch, which took him under his wing.

Publications

Popular Scientific:

  • The River of Time, Cambridge University Press 1998, 2001
  • Black holes in space, Harri German 1989
  • "Evolution of the Universe", Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft 2nd edition 1986, Publisher MIR, Moscow
  • " Black holes in space ", Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft 4th Edition 1989 Publisher MIR, Moscow

He has written or collaborated on 15 books on cosmology and astrophysics, including:

  • By Alexander S. Sharov ( Sarov ) Edwin Hubble, life and work, Cambridge University Press 1992 German translation: Edwin Hubble. The man who discovered the Big Bang, Birkhäuser 1994

Some essays:

  • R and T regions in a spacetime with a spherically symmetric space (Russian), releases the State Astronomical Institute Sternberg ( Gaish ), Volume 132, 1964, pp. 3-42, reprinted in George FR Ellis, Malcolm AH MacCallum, Andrzej Krasinski (ed.) Golden Oldies in General Relativity. Hidden Gems, Springer Verlag 2013

Awards

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