Biography:Lev Lipatov

Short description: Russian physicist

Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov
Born	Leningrad
Died	September 4, 2017(2017-09-04) (aged 77) Dubna
Known for	DGLAP evolution equations
Awards	Pomeranchuk Prize (2001) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2015)
Scientific career
Institutions	Landau Institute Ioffe Institute University of Bonn

Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Липа́тов; 2 May 1940, in Leningrad – 4 September 2017, in Dubna) was a Russian physicist, well known for his contributions to nuclear physics and particle physics. He has been the head of Theoretical Physics Division at St. Petersburg's Nuclear Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Gatchina and an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

For the long period he worked with Vladimir Gribov, laying a basis for a field theory description of deep inelastic scattering and annihilation (Gribov-Lipatov evolution equations, later known as DGLAP, 1972). He wrote significant papers of the Pomeranchuk singularity in Quantum chromodynamics (1977) what resulted in deriving the BFKL evolution equation (Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov), contributed to the study of critical phenomena (semiclassical Lipatov's approximation), the theory of tunnelling and renormalon contribution to effective couplings. He discovered the connection between high-energy scattering and the exactly solvable models (1994).

Awards

• High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2015)
• Pomeranchuk Prize (2001)

See also

• BFKL pomeron
• Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
• Renormalon

External links

• Diakonov QCD scattering: from DGLAP to BFKL, CERN Courier, July 2010