Physicist Andrei Linde has won the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his seminal theories on cosmic inflation, which describes the rapid expansion of the universe after its formation. Linde, who joined Stanford in 1990, shares the award and the $1 million that accompanies it with Alan Guth, a professor of physics at MIT, and Alexei Starobinsky, a cosmologist at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Kavli Prizes, inaugurated in 2008, are bestowed each year by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for contributions to the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.
