Andrei Doroshkevich Explained

Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich (ru|Андрей Георгиевич Дорошкевич, born 1937^[1]) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist, head of the laboratory on the physics of the early universe at the Lebedev Physical Institute.^[2]

He is best known for his work with Igor Novikov, which they published in 1964, providing a theoretical basis for the cosmic microwave background radiation and pointing out that this radiation should be experimentally measurable.^{[3] [4]} The signal of this radiation had been discovered experimentally by T. A. Shmaonov in 1957, but his work had been forgotten even in the Soviet Union by the time of Doroshkevich and Novikov's work. Their own work, also, remained unknown in the west until after the Nobel prize winning rediscovery of the same signal by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965.^{[4] [5]}

Selected publications

• Doroshkevich . A. G. . Novikov . I. D. . 1964SPhD....9..111D . Soviet Physics Doklady . 111 . Mean density of radiation in the metagalaxy and certain problems in relativistic cosmology . 9 . 1964.
• Doroshkevich . A. G. . 1970Afz.....6..581D . 10.1007/bf01001625 . 4 . Astrophysics . 320–330 . Spatial structure of perturbations and origin of galactic rotation in fluctuation theory . 6 . 1973. 120581375 .
• Doroshkevich . A. G. . Zel'dovich . Y. B. . Syunyaev . R. A. . 1978SvA....22..523D . Soviet Astronomy . 523–528 . Fluctuations of the microwave background radiation in the adiabatic and entropic theories of galaxy formation . 22 . 1978.
• Doroshkevich . A. G. . Kotok . E. V. . Novikov . I. D. . Polyudov . A. N. . Shandarin . S. F. . Sigov . Y. S. . 1980MNRAS.192..321D . 10.1093/mnras/192.2.321 . 2 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 321–337 . Two-dimensional simulation of the gravitational system dynamics and formation of the large-scale structure of the Universe . 192 . 1980. free .
• Doroshkevich . A. G. . Naselsky . P. D. . Verkhodanov . O. V. . Novikov . D. I. . Turchaninov . V. I. . Novikov . I. D. . Christensen . P. R. . Chiang . L.-Y. . astro-ph/0305537 . 2005IJMPD..14..275D . 10.1142/s0218271805006183 . 2 . International Journal of Modern Physics D . 275–290 . Gauss–Legendre sky pixelization (GLESP) for CMB maps . 14 . 2005. 9735005 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. I. Oddbjørn. Engvold. Bozena. Czerny. John. Lattanzio. Rolf. Stabell. EOLSS Publications. 2012. 9781780210001. 100.
2. http://www.lebedev.ru/ru/structure.html?task=people&id_people=3418 Staff profile
3. Book: Relativistic astrophysics / the structure and evolution of the universe.. 1983. University of Chicago Pr.. Chicago. 978-0-226-97957-1. Ya. B.. Zel'dovich. I. D.. Novikov. 8 February 2011. 124.
4. Book: Kragh, Helge. Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe. Princeton University Press. 1999. 9780691005461. 343–344. registration.
5. Book: Finding the Big Bang. P. James E.. Peebles. Lyman A. Jr.. Page. R. Bruce. Partridge. Cambridge University Press. 2009. 9780521519823. 106.