15 Facts About Andrei Linde

Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Andrei Linde received his Bachelor of Science degree from Moscow State University.

In 1975, Andrei Linde was awarded a PhD from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.

Andrei Linde worked at CERN since 1989 and moved to the United States in 1990, where he became professor of physics at Stanford University.

In 1974, Andrei Linde found that the energy density of scalar fields that break the symmetry between different interactions can play the role of the vacuum energy density in the Einstein equations.

Between 1976 and 1978, Andrei Linde demonstrated that the release of this energy during the cosmological phase transitions may be sufficient to heat up the universe.

In 1981, during a seminar by Stephen Hawking on quantum gravity, Andrei Linde developed another version of inflationary theory that he called "new inflation".

Andrei Linde demonstrated that the bubbles not joining up could be solved if there was a bubble that contained our region of the universe in it.

Andrei Linde said that the phase transition must have taken place slowly inside the bubble.

In 1983, Andrei Linde abandoned some of the key principles of old and new inflation and proposed a more general inflationary theory, chaotic inflation.

However, in 1986 Andrei Linde found that in many versions of the chaotic inflation scenario, the process of exponential expansion of the universe continues forever in some parts of the universe.

Andrei Linde continues his work on the theory of inflationary multiverse.

In July 2012, Andrei Linde was an inaugural awardee of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner.

Andrei Linde is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Andrei Linde's parents were Soviet physicists Irina Rakobolskaya and Dmitry Linde.