Sergei Kopeikin

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.

External links

• Kopeikin's UMC homepage
• "MU SCIENTIST MEASURES SPEED OF GRAVITY" - a UMC press release about Kopeikin's results
• "Physicist Disputes Speed of Gravity Claim" - American Physical Society News article, dated June 2003, describing criticism of the results