Alexei Starobinsky
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Alexei Starobinsky (centre) in 2014
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| Born | Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinskii 19 April 1948 Moscow Russian Federation, USSR |
| Residence | USSR, Russia |
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| Thesis | (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich |
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Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky (Russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Староби́нский; born 19 April 1948) is a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist. He received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation", together with Alan Guth and Andrei Linde in 2014.
Starobinsky is a former student of Yakov Zeldovich at Moscow State University from where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1972. In 1975, he earned a PhD degree from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is now a senior scientist at the Institute. From 1990 to 1997, he headed the department of gravitation and cosmology and, from 1999 to 2003, he was the Institute's deputy director.
In the 1970s, Starobinsky worked on the theory of particle creation in the early universe and particle generation and radiation from rotating black holes (1973/74), a precursor of the theory of Hawking radiation. He was also, in 1979, a pioneer in the theory of cosmic inflation in the Russian scientific literature. The phase of inflation postulates that the universe size grew quadrillion times faster that the speed of light. Starobinsky worked on Starobinsky inflation, a modification to general relativity which attempts to explain inflation. In the American and western European physics literature, Alan Guth was considered a pioneer of the theory during the same time period.
Starobinsky was a visiting scientist in 1991 at the École Normale Superieure; in 2006, at the Institut Henri Poincaré; in 1994 and 2007, at the Yukawa Institute of the University of Kyoto; and, in 2000/2001, at the Research Center for the Early Universe at the University of Tokyo.
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