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Alexander Vilenkin
Олександр Віленкін;
Vilenkin at Harvard University, 2005
Born (1949-05-13) May 13, 1949 (age 75)
Kharkiv,[1] Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity at Buffalo
Known forEternal inflation
Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem
Cosmic strings
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical cosmology
InstitutionsTufts University

Alexander Vilenkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Виле́нкин; Ukrainian: Олександр Віленкін; born 13 May 1949) is the Leonard Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary Science and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University.[2][3] A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 260 publications.[4]

  1. ^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale, 2005.
  2. ^ "Alexander Vilenkin". Tufts Institute of Cosmology. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  3. ^ "Named Professorships". Tufts School of Arts and Sciences. Tufts University. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  4. ^ "Alexander Vilenkin Research References". Research Gate. Retrieved September 17, 2019.

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Alexander Vilenkin

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Alexander Vilenkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Виле́нкин; Ukrainian: Олександр Віленкін; born 13 May 1949) is the Leonard Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary...

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Vilenkin

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Vilenkin is a surname of Russian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Vilenkin (born 1949), Russian-American cosmogonist Naum Ya...

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Kalam cosmological argument

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1984, pp. 14–16; Alexander Vilenkin, "Creation of Universes from Nothing," Physics Letters, 117B, 1982, pp. 25–28; Alexander Vilenkin, "Birth of Inflationary...

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Eternal inflation

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model, introduced the first example of eternal inflation in 1983, and Alexander Vilenkin showed that it is generic.[clarification needed] Alan Guth's 2007...

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String theory landscape

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arXiv:hep-ph/0512187. See also the discussion at [1]. See, e.g. Alexander Vilenkin (2007). "A measure of the multiverse". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical...

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Temporal finitism

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existed for an infinite time, such as eternal inflation. But in 2012, Alexander Vilenkin and Audrey Mithani of Tufts University wrote a paper claiming that...

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Mathematical universe hypothesis

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into unrelated substructures, and separate ones can be unified." Alexander Vilenkin comments: Ch. 19, p. 203  that "The number of mathematical structures...

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Mediocrity principle

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Mediocrity' even though the assumption they make is that the Milky Way Galaxy is typical (rather than Earth). This term was coined by Alexander Vilenkin (1995)....

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Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory

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1016/B978-044451560-5/50014-2. ISBN 978-0444515605. S2CID 118897904. Alexander, Vilenkin (1982-11-04). "Creation of universes from nothing". Physics Letters...

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The Hidden Reality

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Worlds (book) (2004) Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape (2005) Alexander Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (July 2006) Sean...

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Multiverse

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Guth, Andrei Linde, Michio Kaku, David Deutsch, Leonard Susskind, Alexander Vilenkin, Yasunori Nomura, Raj Pathria, Laura Mersini-Houghton, Neil deGrasse...

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Boltzmann brain

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Alan H. Guth; Andrei Linde; Mahdiyar Noorbala; Michael P. Salem; Alexander Vilenkin (14 September 2010). "Boltzmann brains and the scale-factor cutoff...

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Eternity of the world

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stake). The question of the eternity of the world remains unsettled; Alexander Vilenkin is a famous proponent of the view that the world had a beginning,...

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Time travel

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the Future. March 9, 1982". Ad in Artforum p. 90. Jaume Garriga; Alexander Vilenkin (2001). "Many worlds in one". Phys. Rev. D. 64 (4): 043511. arXiv:gr-qc/0102010...

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Edward Tryon

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originated from a quantum fluctuation of the vacuum. The cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin said of the paper: "Now, what Tryon was suggesting was that our entire...

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List of cosmologists

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(1947–) proposed brane-antibrane interactions as a cause of inflation Alexander Vilenkin (1949–) showed that eternal inflation is generic, studied cosmic strings...

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Anthropic principle

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June 1998. On Max Tegmark's work. Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Alexander Vilenkin, David Gross and Lawrence Krauss: Debate on anthropic reasoning Archived...

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Human extinction

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for example, health risks, according to Ken Olum, Joshua Knobe, and Alexander Vilenkin, the possibility of human extinction does have practical implications...

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Cosmological constant

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inverse gambler's fallacy. In 1995, Weinberg's argument was refined by Alexander Vilenkin to predict a value for the cosmological constant that was only ten...

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Quantum tunnelling

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of Tunneling. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-238-019-7. Vilenkin, Alexander; Vilenkin, Alexander; Winitzki, Serge (2003). "Particle creation in a tunneling...

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Andrei Linde

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or string theory landscape. In 1982-1983, Steinhardt, Linde and Alexander Vilenkin realized that exponential expansion in the new inflation scenario...

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Alan Guth

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American Academy of Achievement. Boston Globe photos of winning entry Alexander Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes, ISBN 978-0-8090-9523-0...

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Tufts University

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department also offers joint seminars with MIT. Organized by Alan Guth and Alexander Vilenkin, the seminars are open to all students. The Fletcher School also operates...

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Closer to Truth

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Susskind, Alexander Vilenkin, Russell Stannard, Roger Penrose 29 3 "How Does Beauty Color the Cosmos?" Peter Atkins, Roger Penrose, Stephon Alexander, Fotini...

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List of Jews born in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

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astrophysicist, astronomer, biologist Alexander Tropsha, chemist Vladimir Veksler, physicist Alexander Vilenkin, cosmologist Selman Waksman, biochemist...

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List of theoretical physicists

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(born 1949) Itamar Procaccia (born 1949) Mikhail Shifman (born 1949) Alexander Vilenkin (born 1949) Joel Feldman (born 1949) John C. Collins (born 1949) R...

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Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom

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personnel; Colonel Perkhurov held the role of Chief of Staff; Captain Alexander Vilenkin of the Sumy Hussar Regiment was their cavalry commander; Captain Schroeder...

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