Sergei Kopeikin
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Sergei Kopeikin (born
April 10,
1956) is a
USSR-born
physicist presently living and working in the
United States, where he holds the position of Associate Professor of Physics at the
University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC). He specializes in the study of
gravity and
general relativity, and in September
2002 he led a team which controversially claimed to be the first to have measured the
speed of gravity.
Kopeikin was born in Kashin, a small town in what was then the USSR. In 1986, he obtained a Ph.D from the Space Research Institute of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. In 1991, he obtained a Doctor of Science degree from Moscow State University.
He has been married to Zoia Kopeikina (Pikelner) since 1980, and they have four daughters. Since February 2000, they have been living in Columbia, Missouri.
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