with Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinsky, of the Kavli Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Linde is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Personal life Linde is married to Renata Kallosh. They have two sons. His parents were Soviet physicists Irina Rakobolskaya and . Political positions In February–March 2022, he signed an open letter by Russian scientists condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and another open letter by Breakthrough Prize laureates with the same message. References External links Andrei Linde's webpage at Stanford University Andre Linde radio interview on Entitled Opinions Linde, Andrei (2004) "Inflation, Quantum Cosmology and the Anthropic Principle" in John Barrow, Paul C W Davies, and C L Harper, eds., Science and Ultimate Reality: From Quantum to Cosmos, a volume honoring John A. Wheeler's 90th birthday. Cambridge University Press. Slack, Gordy (1998) "Faith in the Universe: Conversations with cosmologists," California Wild 51(3) 1948 births Living people Moscow State University alumni American cosmologists Soviet emigrants to the United States Soviet physicists 20th-century American physicists People associated with CERN Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Kavli Prize laureates in Astrophysics