{{Short description|American theoretical physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Alexander Kusenko | image = Alexander_Kusenko.jpg | caption = Alex Kusenko in 2011 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966|3}} | birth_place = Simferopol, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | ethnicity = | residence = | citizenship = American | fields = {{Br list | Theoretical physics | Astrophysics | Cosmology }} | work_institutions = {{Br list | UCLA | Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe | CERN| University of Pennsylvania }} | alma_mater = Moscow State University (BSc)<br />Stony Brook University (PhD) | doctoral_advisor = Robert Shrock | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = | spouse = | website = http://kusenko.physics.ucla.edu/ | footnotes = }}
'''Alexander Kusenko''' is a theoretical physicist who is currently a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition, Kusenko holds an appointment of Senior Scientist at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) since February 2008. He has served as a general member of the board of Aspen Center for Physics 2004-2019. Kusenko was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 for ''original and seminal contributions to particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2008&unit_id=DPF&institution=University+of+California%2C+Los+Angeles |title=APS Fellowship|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}}</ref> In 2021, Kusenko was awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/alexander-kusenko/ |title=Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics}}</ref> In 2021, he entered a $10,000 wager with Derek Muller over the possibility of sailing a land vehicle straight downwind faster than the wind, which he later conceded.<ref name="Business Insider article">{{cite news |last1=Woodward |first1=Aylin |title=A YouTuber bet a physicist $10,000 that a wind-powered vehicle could travel twice as fast as the wind itself — and won |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/youtuber-won-10000-bet-with-physicist-over-wind-powered-vehicle-2021-7 |access-date=14 September 2021 |work=Business Insider |date=Jul 28, 2021}}</ref>
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== External links == *{{official webpage|http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko}} *[http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Kusenko.1 Scientific publications of Alexander Kusenko] on INSPIRE-HEP *{{Google Scholar id|Wxo49-0AAAAJ|Alexander Kusenko}} *[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/26/scientists-may-have-solved-mystery-of-matters-origin/ ''Scientists may have solved mystery of matter’s origin'' by Sarah Kaplan], The Washington Post *[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/higgs-boson-could-explain-antimatter/ "Higgs Boson Could Explain Matter’s Dominance over Antimatter"] by Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American
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