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Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov | |
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 Igor Novikov (right) withKip Thorne | |
| Born | (1935-11-10)November 10, 1935 (age 89) |
| Nationality | Russian Soviet (formerly) |
| Occupation(s) | Theoretical astrophysicist andCosmologist |
Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (Russian:И́горь Дми́триевич Но́виков; born November 10, 1935) is aRussian (and formerSoviet)theoretical astrophysicist andcosmologist.
Novikov put forward the idea ofwhite holes in 1964. He also formulated theNovikov self-consistency principle in the mid-1980s, a contribution to the theory oftime travel.
Novikov moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he worked and taught at theNiels Bohr Institute. He returned to Russia in 2001.
Novikov gained hisPhD degree in astrophysics in 1965 and the RussianD.Sc. degree in astrophysics in 1970. From 1974 to 1990 he was head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics at theRussian Space Research Institute inMoscow. Before 1991 he was head of the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics at theLebedev Physical Institute in Moscow and has been a professor atMoscow State University. Since 1994 he has been director of the Theoretical Astrophysics Center (TAC) of theUniversity of Copenhagen,Denmark. He is currently also a professor ofastrophysics at the Observatory of the University of Copenhagen, where he has been since 1991. Since 1998 he has been a Fellow of theRoyal Astronomical Society.
He is awarded the First John Archibald Wheeler Prize (2020), together with physicistKip Thorne (Caltech) and Oxford University professorRoger Penrose. This award is presented for his contribution to the development of thegeneral theory of relativity and the physics ofblack holes. The prize is awarded by the President of theItalian Physical Society at the official awards ceremony in Rome on May 22, 2020.[1]
