Yuri Milner: Alien-hunting Russian billionaire behind $135m push to find extraterrestrial life
The man financing Stephen Hawking's push to find alien life is a two-time college dropout named after the first human being to travel into space.
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner made his fortune as an internet entrepreneur and is currently estimated to be sitting on a fortune of some $US3.4 billion.
The 53-year-old dropped out of a physics PhD at Moscow State University, and later an MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania.
He explains his interest in science by saying he believes he was a physicist in a past life.
Mr Milner and Professor Hawking have announced a $135 million project to scan the heavens for signs of alien life.
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