Vladimir Alekseyevich Belinski (last name is also spelled Belinsky, ; born 26 March 1941) is a Russia

Russia

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n theoretical physicist involved in research in cosmology

Cosmology

Cosmology is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole. Cosmologists seek to understand the origin, evolution, structure, and ultimate fate of the Universe at large, as well as the natural laws that keep it in order...

 and general relativity

General relativity

General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics...

. He worked at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics

The L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a research institution, located in the small town of Chernogolovka near Moscow...

 with Evgeny Lifshitz

Evgeny Lifshitz

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a leading Soviet physicist of Jewish origin and the brother of physicist Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz. Lifshitz is well known in general relativity for coauthoring the BKL conjecture concerning the nature of a generic curvature...

 and contributed to the redaction of some chapters in Landau

Lev Landau

Lev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...

 and Lifshitz's course of theoretical physics

Course of Theoretical Physics

The Course of Theoretical Physics is a ten-volume series of books covering theoretical physics that was initiated by Lev Landau and written in collaboration with his student Evgeny Lifshitz starting in the late 1930s....

 for volume two. He got his Habilitation

Habilitation

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(Doctor of Sciences) degree at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1980.

Currently he holds an equivalent professor position by special appointment at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare is the coordinating institution for nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics in Italy. It was founded on the 8th of August 1951, to further the nuclear physics research tradition initiated by Enrico Fermi in Rome, in the 1930s...

 (INFN), University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. He held courses on general relativity

General relativity

General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics...

 at University of Rome.

One of his most notable contributions is BKL conjecture

BKL singularity

A BKL singularity is a model of the dynamic evolution of the Universe near the initial singularity, described by an anisotropic, homogeneous, chaotic solution to Einstein's field equations of gravitation...

 on the behavior of solutions of Einstein equations near a singularity. This conjecture received some support from numerical computations