Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov

Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov
Igor Novikov (right) with Kip Thorne
Born (1935-11-10) November 10, 1935 (age 89)
NationalityRussian
Soviet (formerly)
Occupation(s)Theoretical astrophysicist and Cosmologist

Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (Russian: И́горь Дми́триевич Но́виков; born November 10, 1935) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Novikov put forward the idea of white holes in 1964. He also formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle in the mid-1980s, a contribution to the theory of time travel.

Novikov moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has been working and teaching at the Niels Bohr Institute.


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