Vitaly Efimov
Soviet physicist
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Vitaly N. Efimov (Russian: Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов; born 1938) is a Soviet theoretical physicist. He proposed the existence of a novel and exotic state of matter now dubbed the Efimov State as a researcher in A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, USSR in his 1970 paper "Energy levels arising from resonant two-body forces in a three-body system".[2] It was announced in 2006 that the existence of this state of matter had been confirmed.[3]
Vitaly Efimov | |
|---|---|
| Виталий Ефимов | |
Efimov in 2009 | |
| Born | 1938 (age 87–88) |
| Education | Ioffe Institute |
| Known for | Efimov State |
| Awards | Faddeev Medal (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Workplaces | USSR Academy of Sciences University of Washington |
| Thesis | (1966) |
| Miron Ya. Amusia Lev A. Sliv[1] | |
Formerly an affiliate professor of physics at the University of Washington, he is now a lecturer emeritus.[4]
In 2018, he has been selected as the winner of the Inaugural Fadeev Medal.[5]
