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Andrei Linde | |
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 Linde in 2018 | |
| Born | March 2, 1948 |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Work on cosmic inflation KKLT mechanism |
| Spouse | Renata Kallosh |
| Awards | 2018 Gamow Prize 2014 Kavli Prize 2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2004 Gruber Prize in Cosmology 2002 Dirac Medal 2002 Oskar Klein Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics Physical Cosmology |
| Institutions | Lebedev Physical Institute CERN Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | David Kirzhnits |
Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
Linde is one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, as well as the theory of eternal inflation and inflationary multiverse. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Moscow State University. In 1975, Linde was awarded a PhD from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. He worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) since 1989 and moved to the United States in 1990, where he became professor of physics at Stanford University. Among the various awards he has received for his work on inflation, in 2002 he was awarded the Dirac Medal, along with Alan Guth of MIT and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University. In 2004 he received, along with Alan Guth, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for the development of inflationary cosmology. In 2012 he, along with Alan Guth, was an inaugural awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. In 2014 he received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation", together with Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinsky. In 2018 he received the Gamow Prize.