Education
Novikov gained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in astrophysics in 1965 and the Russian Doctor of Science degree in astrophysics in 1970.
Astronomer astrophysicist physicist university professor
Novikov gained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in astrophysics in 1965 and the Russian Doctor of Science degree in astrophysics in 1970.
Novikov formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle in the mid-1980s, a contribution to the theory of time traveling From 1974 to 1990 he was head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics at the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow. Before 1991 he was head of the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow and has been professor at Moscow State University.
Since 1994 he has been director of the Theoretical Astrophysics Center (TAC) of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
He is currently also a professor of astrophysics at the Observatory of the University of Copenhagen, where he has been since 1991. Since 1998 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
(Igor Novikov has been hailed as "Russia's answer to Steph...)
