Viatcheslav Mukhanov — physicist with roots in the USSR
Viatcheslav Mukhanov is a Russian-German theoretical physicist and professor at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich who is considered one of the fathers of the theory of cosmological inflation — the mechanism that explains the large-scale structure of the universe. His quantum theory of cosmological perturbations is among the most important results in modern cosmology.
Tracing the roots — Russia
Born in Russia and educated in the Soviet scientific tradition, Mukhanov developed his groundbreaking work on inflation at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow before emigrating to Germany. His theory — that quantum fluctuations in the early universe seeded all the galaxies and structures we see — emerged from the same Soviet physics culture that produced so many world-changing ideas.
Russia. At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.