Alexander Friedmann

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cosmologist human mathematician physicist

Alexander Friedmann was a Russian physicist and mathematician who first formulated the expanding-universe solutions to Einstein’s field equations, laying the foundations of modern cosmology.

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instanceOf cosmologist →
human →
mathematician →
physicist →
causeOfDeath typhoid fever →
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire →
Soviet Union →
dateOfBirth 1888-06-16 →
dateOfDeath 1925-09-16 →
educatedAt Saint Petersburg State University →
employer Main Geophysical Observatory →
Petrograd University →
ethnicGroup Russians →
familyName Friedmann →
fieldOfWork cosmology →
general relativity →
mathematics →
physics →
givenName Alexander →
hasAcademicDiscipline differential equations →
fluid dynamics →
theoretical physics →
influenced Georges Lemaître →
modern physical cosmology →
influencedBy Albert Einstein →
Hendrik Lorentz →
knownFor Friedmann equations →
expanding universe models →
solutions of Einstein field equations →
languageOfWorkOrName Russian →
memberOf Russian Academy of Sciences →
nativeLanguage Russian →
notableIdea closed and open cosmological models →
non-static universe →
notableWork On the Curvature of Space →
On the Possibility of a World with Constant Negative Curvature of Space →
occupation university teacher →
participatedIn World War I →
placeOfBirth Russian Empire →
Saint Petersburg →
placeOfDeath Leningrad →
Russian SFSR →
Soviet Union →
religion Russian Orthodox Church →
sexOrGender male →
workLocation Leningrad →
Petrograd →
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Big Bang →
Big Bang cosmology →
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Arthur Geoffrey Walker →
Georges Lemaître →
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Alexander Friedmann ("Friedmann") →
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