Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Born (1956-10-02) 2 October 1956
Kanash, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR
Residence Germany
Fields Cosmology, Theoretical physics
Institutions Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Alma mater Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Doctoral advisor Vitaly Ginzburg
Known for Predicting Quantum Origin of the Universe Structure
Notable awards

Oskar Klein Medal, Stockholm University, Sweden (2006), Tomalla prize, Switzerland (2009), Blaise Pascal Chair, ENS, Paris, France (2011), Amaldi Medal (2012), Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2013) Max Planck Medal (2015)

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)

Viatcheslav Fyodorovich Mukhanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Фёдорович Муха́нов; born October 2, 1956) is a Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is best known for the theory of Quantum Origin of the Universe Structure. Working in 1980-1981 with Gennady Chibisov in the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow he predicted the spectrum of inhomogeneities in the Universe, which are originated from the initial quantum fluctuations. The numerous experiments in which there were measured the temperature fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation are in excellent agreement with this theoretical prediction, thus confirming that the galaxies and their clusters originated from the initial quantum fluctuations. Later on V. Mukhanov proved that the results, he obtained with G. Chibisov in 1981, are of the generic origin and he has developed the general consistent quantum cosmological perturbation theory.

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