Alexei Starobinsky
Alexei Starobinsky · Science & Medicine
Physicist; pioneer of cosmic inflation theory
1948, Moscow, Russia (Soviet Union) — 2023, Moscow, Russia
Soviet Union · Russia
Alexei Starobinsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; pioneer of cosmic inflation theory
Starobinsky, a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, was a pioneer of cosmic inflation, proposing in 1980 one of the first inflationary models of the early universe, for which he shared the 2014 Kavli Prize with Alan Guth and Andrei Linde. He is listed among physicists of Jewish descent, though details of his family background are not extensively documented.
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Physicist; pioneer of cosmic inflation theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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