PHYSICIST

Andrei Linde

1948 - Today

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Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Linde is one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, as well as the theory of eternal inflation and inflationary multiverse. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Moscow State University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Linde has received more than 247,044 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Andrei Linde is the 508th most popular physicist (down from 501st in 2019), the 1,177th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,178th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Physicist.

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  • 250k

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  • 52.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Andrei Lindes by language

Over the past year Andrei Linde has had the most page views in the with 27,966 views, followed by Russian (13,188), and Spanish (3,330). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Romanian (47.67%), Catalan (29.00%), and Spanish (26.28%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Andrei Linde ranks 508 out of 851Before him are Théophile de Donder, Jakob II Bernoulli, Edwin H. Land, Gene Amdahl, Giovanni Poleni, and Gustave Trouvé. After him are Theodore Hall, Anatoly Alexandrov, William Edward Ayrton, Lester Germer, Alan Sokal, and John Henry Schwarz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Andrei Linde ranks 274Before him are Olivier Blanchard, Mercedes Ruehl, Pinchas Zukerman, Yaakov Litzman, Heinz Flohe, and Todd Rundgren. After him are Chris Squire, Gian Piero Ventura, Paul Milgrom, Magdaléna Vášáryová, Snowy White, and Mizengo Pinda.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Linde ranks 1,177 out of 3,761Before him are Raimonds Vējonis (1966), Muslim Magomayev (1885), Margarita Terekhova (1942), Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883), Nadia Petrova (1982), and Valentin Varennikov (1923). After him are Vladimir Makovsky (1846), Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (1851), Eino Rahja (1885), Georgy Grechko (1931), Eugen Leviné (1883), and Lev Dyomin (1926).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Andrei Linde ranks 29Before him are George Volkoff (1914), Boris Podolsky (1896), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Emil Wiechert (1861), Yuri Orlov (1924), and Alexei Starobinsky (1948). After him are Max Wien (1866), Konstantin Novoselov (1974), George Zweig (1937), Boris Rosing (1869), Vladimir Steklov (1864), and Lev Artsimovich (1909).