Igor Dmitrievich Novikov

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Igor Dmitrijewitsch Novikow ( Russian И́горь Дми́триевич Но́виков , scientific transliteration Igor 'Dmitrievič Novikov ; born November 10, 1935 in Moscow ) is a Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist .

career

Igor Novikov graduated from Moscow State University (Lomonosov University), where he obtained his doctorate in physics and mathematics in 1963. He then worked as a scientist at the Institute for Applied Mathematics in Moscow (1963–1974), where he received his doctorate (D. Sc., Equivalent to the German habilitation ) in the same subject in 1970 . From 1974 and 1990 he was head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Moscow Space Research Institute. Since 1979 he has also been a professor, initially at the Moscow Pedagogical University (1979–1991), and from 1986 also at Lomonosov University. From 1990 to 1997 he headed the department for theoretical astrophysics at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow.

In 1991 he accepted a call to a NORDITA professorship in Copenhagen, where he was Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Copenhagen and from 1994 to 2004 he was also Director of the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics (TAC). Since 2005 he has been Professor Emeritus in Copenhagen and since 2006 also Deputy Director of the Astro-Space Center at the Lebedew Institute.

In 1964 he published with A. Doroshkevich a proposal for the observation of cosmic background radiation , which had been predicted in the 1940s by George Gamow and colleagues and was discovered in 1965 by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson . He also dealt with the astrophysics of black holes and wrote a standard work on theoretical astrophysics with Jakow Borissowitsch Seldowitsch . In 1966 he introduced primordial black holes with Seldowitsch. On the problem of time travel , he formulated the Novikov principle of self-agreement in the 1980s .

Personal

Igor Novikov is married to Eleonora Kotok, the couple have two children. He and his son Dmitri wrote a book about the cosmic microwave background. Novikov's father disappeared under the Stalin regime, and his mother lived in the gulag for two years . He himself came under the care of Seldowitsch, who took him under his wing.

Publications

Popular science:

  • The River of Time , Cambridge University Press 1998, 2001
  • Black holes in space , Harri Deutsch 1989
  • "Evolution of the Universe", Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft 2nd edition 1986 and MIR Verlag, Moscow
  • "Black holes in space", Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft 4th edition 1989 and MIR publishing house, Moscow

He wrote or contributed to 15 books on cosmology and astrophysics, including:

  • with Alexander S. Scharow (Sarov) Edwin Hubble , Leben und Wirken , Cambridge University Press 1992,
    • German translation: Edwin Hubble. The man who discovered the Big Bang , Birkhäuser 1994
  • with Jakow Seldowitsch Relativistic Astrophysics , Volume 1 Stars and Relativity , 1971, Volume 2 The structure and evolution of the universe 1975, University of Chicago Press
  • with Valerij Frolov Physics of Black Holes , Kluwer 1989
  • with Frolov Black hole physics: Basic concepts and new developments , Kluwer 1998
  • Evolution of the Universe , Cambridge University Press 1983
  • with Dmitry Novikov, Pavel Naselsky The Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background , Cambridge University Press 2011

Some essays:

  • R and T regions in a spacetime with a spherically symmetrical space (Russian), Mitteilungen des Staatliches Astronomisches Institut Sternberg (GAISh), Volume 132, 1964, pp. 3–42, reprinted in George FR Ellis , Malcolm AH MacCallum, Andrzej Krasinski (Ed.) Golden Oldies in General Relativity. Hidden Gems , Springer Verlag 2013

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Igor Novikov: Curriculum Vitae. NBI, University of Copenhagen, accessed February 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Doroshkevich, Novikov Doklady Akad. Nauka USSR, Volume 154, 1964, p. 809. The story is also discussed by Igor Novikow, Dmitri Novikow and Pavel Naselsky in their book Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background , Cambridge University Press 2006
  3. ^ Zeldovich, Novikov, The Hypothesis of Cores Retarded During Expansion and the Hot Cosmological Model, Soviet Astronomy, Volume 10, Issue 4, 1966, pp. 602-603
  4. ↑ M. Sasaki et al .: Primordial Black Holes - Perspectives in Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Arxiv 2018
  5. ↑ Directory of Members. Royal Danish Academy of Sciences;
  6. ↑ RAS Awards 2006 . In: Astronomy & Geophysics . tape 48 , no. 1 , February 2, 2007, p. 1.41-1.42 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-4004.2007.48141.x ( oup.com [PDF]).
  7. ↑ Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize 2012 goes to Prof. Jaan EINASTO (Estonia) and Prof. Igor NOVIKOV (Russia). asc-lebedev.ru, 2012, accessed on February 26, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Novikov, Igor Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Новиков, Игорь Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow