Biography:Alexei Efros (physicist)
Alexei Efros | |
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Born | Leningrad, USSR | August 11, 1938
Nationality | Russian, American |
Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnic Institute Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute |
Known for | Efros–Shklovskii variable-range hopping |
Awards | Landau Prize (1986) Fellow of the American Physical Society (1992) Humboldt Prize (1997) Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute UC Riverside University of Utah |
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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.[1][2][3]
Biography
Efros was born in 1938 in Leningrad, USSR.[citation needed] He received his Master of Science from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1961, and his PhD from the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in 1962. Following graduation, he continued working at the Ioffe Institute and in the process received a second PhD in 1972 in semiconductor physics. In 1986, he received the Landau Prize in theoretical physics from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1987 he was promoted to Principal Scientist at the Ioffe Institute and served as a professor in the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989 he emigrated to the United States and was a visiting distinguished scholar at University of California, Riverside. In 1991, he moved to the University of Utah and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 1994. In 1992, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "for his work on the theory of transport in disordered systems".[4] In 1997, he received the Humboldt Prize.[5]
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 Elihu Abrahams and Boris I. Shklovskii.[6]
Personal life
Efros's son, Alexei A. Efros is an associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley.[7]
References
- ↑ "Distinguished Professors List". University of Utah. http://www.physics.utah.edu/~efros/.
- ↑ "Efros, A. L.". worldcat.org. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83319863/.
- ↑ "Alexei Efros". utah.edu. https://academic-affairs.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/03/Distinguished-Professors-List-2016-5.pdf.
- ↑ "APS Fellowship" (in en). https://www.aps.org/units/dcmp/fellowship/index.cfm?year=.
- ↑ "Alexei L. Efros - Cirriculum Vitae". http://www.physics.utah.edu/~efros/vitae.html.
- ↑ "2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient" (in en). https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Efros&first_nm=Alexei&year=2019.
- ↑ "Alexei A. Efros homepage". University of California, Berkeley. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~efros/.