Boris Ionovich Shklovskii (born 1944) is a theoretical
physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
, at the
, specializing in
condensed matter
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. Shklovskii earned his A.B. degree in
Physics
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, in 1966 and a Ph.D. in
condensed matter
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theory, in 1968 from
Leningrad University
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.
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Retrieved 28 April 2019.
Shklovskii is known for the
Efros–Shklovskii variable-range hopping conductivity, a model for the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity in the variable-range hopping regime.
He has also made important contributions to the theory of the
Quantum Hall effect
The quantum Hall effect (or integer quantum Hall effect) is a quantized version of the Hall effect which is observed in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields, in which the Hall resistance exh ...
(explaining the structure of conducting edge channels
and predicting the formation of Quantum Hall stripe and bubble phases
) and to the theory of
macromolecules
A macromolecule is a very large molecule important to biophysical processes, such as a protein or nucleic acid. It is composed of thousands of covalently bonded atoms. Many macromolecules are polymers of smaller molecules called monomers. The ...
(developing the theory of electrostatic charge inversion
).
Honors and awards
Shklovskii was awarded the Landau Prize of Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1986, the A.S. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics in 1990,
[ and was elected a ]fellow
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Within the context of higher education ...
of the American Physical Society
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in 1997.
In 2018, he received the 2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize for "''pioneering research in the physics of disordered materials and hopping conductivity''" together with Alexei L. Efros
Alexei Lvovich Efros (russian: Алексей Львович Эфрос) is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in condensed matter physics. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at University of Utah.
Biography
Efros was born ...
and Elihu Abrahams.
References
External links
National Public Radio Blog
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1944 births
Living people
21st-century American physicists
Russian physicists
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners
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