Mikhail Borisovich Voloshin

Michail Borissowitsch Woloschin ( Russian Михаил Борисович Волошин , English transcription: Mikhail Voloshin ; * May 14, 1953 , † March 20, 2020 ) was a Russian - American theoretical physicist .

Voloshin received his doctorate in 1977 at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) in Moscow , where he worked as a scientist from 1976. In 1990 he went to the USA and accepted a professorship at the University of Minnesota (at the same time as his Russian colleague Michail Schifman ), but also kept his position at ITEP. From 2007 he was director of the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota.

He mainly worked on non-perturbation quantum chromodynamics , e.g. B. QCD, summation rules and quarkonium physics. Independently of Mark Wise and Nathan Isgur , he developed the effective theory of heavy quarks (HQET), with which the decays of hadrons with such heavy quarks (such as charm, bottom, top) could be calculated.

In 1983 he received the Physics Prize of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . From 1997 he was a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2001 he received the Sakurai Prize with Wise and Isgur .

Web links

• 2001 JJ Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient. APS(English). 
• Homepage. University of Minnesota(English).