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Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov
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Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (Russian: И́горь Дми́триевич Но́виков; born November 10, 1935) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist.
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Born | (1935-11-10) November 10, 1935 (age 88) |
Nationality | Russian Soviet (formerly) |
Occupation(s) | Theoretical astrophysicist and Cosmologist |
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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.