Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov

Russian astronomer

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1935

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (Russian: ?´???? ???´??????? ??´?????; born November 10, 1935) is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. 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.