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vladimir belinski

vladimir alekseyevich belinski -lrb- last name is also spelled belinsky , ; born 26 march 1941 -rrb- is a russian theoretical physicist involved in research in cosmology and general relativity .
he worked at landau institute for theoretical physics with evgeny lifshitz and contributed to the redaction of some chapters in landau and lifshitz 's course of theoretical physics for volume two .
he got his habilitation -lrb- doctor of sciences -rrb- 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 -lrb- infn -rrb- , university of rome `` la sapienza '' , italy .
he held courses on general relativity at university of rome .
he co-invented the belinski-zakharov transform in 1978 showing that black holes are a special example of gravitational solitons .
one of his most notable contributions is bkl conjecture on the behavior of solutions of einstein field equations near a singularity .
this conjecture received some support from numerical computations
