Valentin Ivanovich Sakharov

Valentin Ivanovich Sakharov ( Russian Валентин Иванович Захаров , English transliteration Valentine Zakharov; born August 9, 1940 ) is a Russian theoretical physicist.

Sakharov studied at the Institute of Physical Technology in Moscow , where he graduated in 1963. In 1966 he received his Russian doctoral degree (equivalent to a habilitation in the West ) at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) in Moscow, where he was then a scientist until 1990. He then went to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich , was professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1993 and again at the MPI in Munich from 1998.

Sakharov is best known for his work with Arkady Vainshtein and Michail Schifman on non-perturbation-theoretical aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), for example the QCD sum rule named after them (called SVZ sum rule after them).

In 1999 he received the Sakurai Prize with Vainshtein and Schifman .

Web links

• Appreciation and biography on the occasion of the awarding of the Sakurai Prize