Andrei Linde
Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic Inflation; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize
ANDREI LINDE, a Russian-American theoretical physicist and professor of Physics at Stanford University, is the father of "eternal chaotic inflation," one of the varieties of the inflationary multiverse theory, which proposes that the universe may consist of many universes with different properties. He is an Inaugural Recipient of the Fundamental Physics Prize, awarded by the Milner Foundation. And in 2002, he was awarded the Dirac Medal, along with Alan Guth of MIT and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University.
Dr. Linde's current research involves the theory of dark energy, investigation of the global structure and the fate of the universe, cosmological constraints on the properties of elementary particles, and quantum cosmology.