Mikhail A. Shifman

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Physicist
gptkbp:academic_advisor A. A. Belavin
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_Minnesota
gptkbp:author A. I. Vainshtein
A. M. Polyakov
I. R. Klebanov
M. A. Shifman
S. S. Gubser
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Guggenheim_Fellowship
Fellow of the American Physical Society
gptkbp:birth_date 1946-01-01
gptkbp:birth_place Leningrad, Soviet Union
gptkbp:contribution contributions to the study of string theory
contributions to the study of the landscape of string theory
contributions to the study of the symmetry breaking mechanisms
contributions to the study of effective field theories
contributions to the study of the phase structure of gauge theories
contributions to the study of non-abelian gauge theories
contributions to the study of the Ad S/ CFT correspondence
contributions to the study of anomalies
contributions to the study of dualities
contributions to the study of instantons
contributions to the study of quantum anomalies
contributions to the study of solitons
contributions to the study of topological defects
contributions to the understanding of QCD
contributions to the study of supersymmetric gauge theories
contributions to the study of the renormalization group
contributions to the study of the effective potential
contributions to the study of the mass gap in quantum field theories
contributions to the study of the role of solitons in field theories
contributions to the study of the holographic principle
contributions to the study of the confinement problem in QCD
contributions to the study of the role of anomalies in quantum field theories
contributions to the study of the role of dualities in string theory
contributions to the study of the role of topology in quantum field theories
contributions to the study of the role of instantons in QCD
contributions to the study of the vacuum structure of gauge theories
contributions to the study of the role of effective field theories in particle physics
gptkbp:field gptkb:quantum_field_theory
gptkb:string_theory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Mikhail A. Shifman
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Leonard_Susskind
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:David_Gross
gptkb:Edward_Witten
gptkbp:known_for work on supersymmetry
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:notable_students gptkb:Nikita_Nekrasov
gptkbp:publication gptkb:Physical_Review_D
gptkb:Journal_of_High_Energy_Physics
gptkb:Nuclear_Physics_B
Physics Reports
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
gptkbp:research_interest gauge theories
conformal field theory
non-perturbative effects
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Fundamental_Physics_Prize
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4