Vitaly Efimov | |
Native Name: | Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов |
Birth Place: | Leningrad, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Russian |
Workplaces: | USSR Academy of Sciences University of Washington |
Alma Mater: | Ioffe Institute |
Thesis Year: | 1966 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Miron Ya. Amusia Lev A. Sliv[1] |
Known For: | Efimov State |
Awards: | Faddeev Medal (2018) |
Vitaly N. Efimov (Russian: Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов) is a Russian 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]
He is now an affiliate professor of physics at the University of Washington.
In 2018 he has been selected as the winner of the Inaugural Fadeev Medal.[4]