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Biography

AbstractImportant DatesOccupationPlacesSubjects

Relationships

PeopleInstitutions

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Archival as AuthorArchival as Subject

A. D. Linde

Photo

Dates

March 2, 1948 – present

Authorized Form of Name

Linde, A. D.

Additional Forms of Names

Linde, Andrei D.

Linde, Andrej

Linde, Andrej, 1948-

Linde, Andrej Dmitrievic

Biography

Abstract

Andrei D. Linde is Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University (1990-present). Other institutional affiliations include European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Lebedev Physical Institute (Moscow). His research interests include the inflationary universe and supergravity.

Important Dates

March 2, 1948Birth, Moscow (Russia).

1975Obtained PhD in Physics, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (Fizicheskii institut imeni P.N. Lebedeva), Moscow (Russia).

1975 – 1989Professor (1975-1985) and Physicist (1985-1989), Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (Fizicheskii institut imeni P.N. Lebedeva), Moscow (Russia).

1989 – 1990Staff Member, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

1990 – presentProfessor of Physics (1990-2008) and Harald Trap Friis Professor (2008-present), Stanford University, Stanford (Calif.).

2008Member, National Academy of Sciences.

Occupation

Astrophysicist.

Places

Birth

Moscow (Russia)

Graduate Education

Moscow (Russia)

Employment

Moscow (Russia)

Stanford (Calif.)

Subjects

Astrophysics.

Cosmology.

Inflationary universe.

Philosophy and science.

Quantum theory.

Supergravity.

Relationships

People

Family

Kallosh, Renata

Wife.

Linde, Alexander

Son.

Linde, Dimitri

Son.

Advisors & Collaborators

Felder, Gary, 1970-

Advised by Linde at Stanford University, "Mechanisms of reheating after inflation."

Kirzhnits, D. A. (David Abramovich)

PhD advisor at Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Kratochvil, Jan Michael

Advised by Linde at Stanford University, "Constraints on dark energy and the future lifetime of the universe."

Colleagues

Beasley, Malcolm

Both employed at Stanford University.

Bjorken, James D.

Both employed at Stanford University.

Bucksbaum, Philip H.

Both employed at Stanford University.

Burchat, P. (Patricia)

Both employed at Stanford University.

Cabrera, Blas

Both employed at Stanford University.

Chodorow, Marvin

Both employed at Stanford University.

Chu, Steven

Both employed at Stanford University.

Fetter, Alexander L., 1937-

Both employed at Stanford University.

Hofstadter, Robert, 1915-1990

Both employed at Stanford University.

Kahn, Steven Michael

Both employed at Stanford University.

Kirkpatrick, Paul

Both employed at Stanford University.

Kivelson, Steven

Both employed at Stanford University.

Laughlin, Robert B.

Both employed at Stanford University.

Meyerhof, Walter E. (Walter Ernst), 1922-

Both employed at Stanford University.

Nelson, Ann E. (Ann Elizabeth)

Both employed at Stanford University.

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Both employed at Stanford University.

Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999

Both employed at Stanford University.

Susskind, Leonard

Both employed at Stanford University.

Wieman, C. E. (Carl Edwin)

Both employed at Stanford University.

Wojcicki, Stanley G., 1937-

Both employed at Stanford University.

Additional

Guth, Alan H.

Steinhardt, Paul J.

Turok, Neil

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-

Institutions

Major Positions

European Organization for Nuclear Research

Staff Member.

Fizicheskiĭ institut imeni P.N. Lebedeva

Obtained PhD in Physics (1975). Professor and Physicist.

Stanford University. Department of Physics

Professor of Physics and Harald Trap Friis Professor.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Member.

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

Oral history interview with Andrei Linde, 1987 October 22.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Science and the ultimate reality [computer file] : celebrating the vision of John Archibald Wheeler and taking it forward into a new center of discovery / 2002 March 15-18.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Subject

Oral history interview with Neil Turok, 2002 May 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Steven Weinberg, 1988 May 5 and 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA