Erast Gliner
Erast Gliner · Science & Medicine
Physicist; early idea of vacuum-driven cosmological expansion (dark energy)
1923, Kyiv — 2021
Leningrad, Soviet Union · United States
Erast Gliner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; early idea of vacuum-driven cosmological expansion (dark energy)
Erast Gliner was a Soviet-born physicist who, in a 1965 paper, proposed that a vacuum-like state with negative pressure could drive an accelerating, exponential expansion of the universe — effectively the first theoretical description of what is now called dark energy and a forerunner of the theory of cosmic inflation. His ideas were long overlooked before being recognized as pioneering. He is listed among Jewish physicists by Jinfo.org.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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Physicist; early idea of vacuum-driven cosmological expansion (dark energy)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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