Alexei Starobinsky

Alexei Starobinsky
Starobinsky in 2013
Born	Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky (1948-04-19)19 April 1948 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	21 December 2023(2023-12-21) (aged 75)
Education	Moscow State University (MSc) Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (PhD)
Known for	Cosmic inflation
Awards	Friedmann Prize (1996) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2013) Kavli Prize (2014) Dirac Medal (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics Cosmology
Institutions	Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Thesis	Quantum Effects and the Amplification of Waves in Strong Gravitational Forces  (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Yakov Zeldovich
Doctoral students	Lev Abramovich Kofman Varun Sahni

Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky (Russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Староби́нский; 19 April 1948 – 21 December 2023) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was a pioneer of the theory of cosmic inflation, for which he received the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics together with Alan Guth and Andrei Linde.