PHYSICIST

Alexei Starobinsky

1948 - 2023

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Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky (Russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Староби́нский; 19 April 1948 – 21 December 2023) was a Soviet and Russian-Jewish theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was a pioneer of the theory of cosmic inflation, for which he received the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics together with Alan Guth and Andrei Linde. Born in Moscow, Starobinsky obtained a degree in physics from Moscow State University in 1972 and a doctorate in theoretical and mathematical physics from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1975, the latter under the supervision of Yakov Zeldovich. Starobinsky remained at the Landau Institute, becoming its principal research scientist in 1997 and holding this position until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexei Starobinsky is the 719th most popular physicist (down from 494th in 2019), the 2,079th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,109th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexei Starobinsky ranks 719 out of 851. Before him are Harold Agnew, Leonard Mlodinow, Joseph Polchinski, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Bruno Zumino, and Elliott H. Lieb. After him are Stuart Hameroff, Raymond Gosling, Bill Nye, Ernst Ising, Charles Stark Draper, and Rudolf Haag.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Alexei Starobinsky ranks 559. Before him are Danuta Hübner, Zhou Xiaochuan, Antoni Macierewicz, Yōichi Masuzoe, John Blackley, and Mikko Kozarowitzky. After him are Dave Cowens, Bonfoh Abass, Bernd Franke, John Huchra, Tommy Söderberg, and Biri Biri. Among people deceased in 2023, Alexei Starobinsky ranks 435. Before him are Alan Newton, Alfredo Rojas, Damir Šolman, Frank Shu, Tom Courtney, and Bob Richards. After him are Gérard Collomb, Darío Jara Saguier, Elmar Wepper, Lisa Loring, Francesco Maselli, and Ritt Bjerregaard.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexei Starobinsky ranks 2,079 out of 3,761. Before him are Anton Yelchin (1989), Oleg Romantsev (1954), Marina Ratner (1938), Viktor Talalikhin (1918), Nadezhda Kadysheva (1959), and Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950). After him are Georgy Ushakov (1901), Andrey Arkhangelsky (1879), Olga Bondarenko (1960), Yelena Safonova (1956), Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (1832), and Dmitri Radchenko (1970).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Alexei Starobinsky ranks 44. Before him are Barys Kit (1910), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Orest Khvolson (1852), Aleksandr Andronov (1901), Nikolay Umov (1846), and Grigory Landsberg (1890). After him are Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862), Roald Sagdeev (1932), and Leonid Sedov (1907).

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