Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov
Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov | |
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Igor Novikov (right) with Kip Thorne | |
| Born | November 10, 1935 |
| Nationality | Russian 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 worked and taught at the Niels Bohr Institute. He returned to Russia in 2001.