Viatcheslav Mukhanov

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Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Born	(1956-10-02) 2 October 1956 (age 68) Kanash, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known for	Predicting quantum origin of the Universe structure
Awards	Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR (1988) Oskar Klein Medal, Stockholm University, Sweden (2006) Tomalla Prize, Switzerland (2009) Blaise Pascal Chair, ENS, Paris, France (2011) Amaldi Medal (2012) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2013) Max Planck Medal (2015) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015) Dirac Medal, (ICTP) (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Cosmology, Theoretical physics
Institutions	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Doctoral advisor	Vitaly Ginzburg

Viatcheslav Fyodorovich Mukhanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Фёдорович Муха́нов; born October 2, 1956) is a Soviet/Russian born German theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is best known for the theory of Quantum Origin of the Universe Structure. Working in 1980-1981 with Gennady Chibisov in the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow he predicted the spectrum of inhomogeneities in the Universe, which are originated from the initial quantum fluctuations. The numerous experiments in which there were measured the temperature fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation are in excellent agreement with this theoretical prediction, thus confirming that the galaxies and their clusters originated from the initial quantum fluctuations. Later on Mukhanov proved that the results he obtained with G. Chibisov in 1981 are of the generic origin and he has developed the general consistent quantum cosmological perturbation theory.

Since 2006, Mukhanov is the Scientific Director of the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.