Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich (russian: Андрей Георгиевич Дорошкевич, born 1937) is a Russian (and former

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theoretical astrophysicist Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the hea ...

and cosmologist, head of the laboratory on the physics of the early universe at the Lebedev Physical Institute. He is best known for his work with

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, 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. 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

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winning rediscovery of the same signal by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965.

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