Physicist Alexey Starobinsky has died – Kommersant

Physicist and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Starobinsky died at the age of 75. reported administration of the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, where the scientist worked. The report says that the scientist died on December 21, the cause of death is not specified.

Farewell to Alexey Starobinsky will take place on December 25 in the Small Ritual Hall of the Central Clinical Hospital at the address: st. Marshala Timoshenko, 25. “This is a huge loss for us. We will preserve the bright memory of him,” the institute said in a statement.

Alexey Starobinsky is a co-author of the theory of accelerated expansion of the early Universe. The scientific work was published in 1979, after which it was developed by Alan Guth, Stephen Hawking, Vyacheslav Mukhanov and Gennady Chibis.

In dedicated to the death of a scientist material The publication “Scientific Russia” says that the discovery of Alexei Starobinsky is the most important in theoretical physics, since “no one has been able to look so far into the past of the world.” Since 1997, the scientist has been a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and since 2010, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina”. In 2017, he was elected as a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences.