About Vitaly Efimov
Born 1938. Vitaly Efimov is a Russian physicist, university teacher and theoretical physicist, known for Efimov State.
Vitaly N. Efimov (Russian: Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов; born 1938) is a Soviet theoretical physicist. He proposed the existence of a novel and exotic state of matter now dubbed the Efimov State as a researcher in A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, USSR in his 1970 paper "Energy levels arising from resonant two-body forces in a three-body system". It was announced in 2006 that the existence of this state of matter had been confirmed.
Formerly an affiliate professor of physics at the University of Washington, he is now a lecturer emeritus.
In 2018, he has been selected as the winner of the Inaugural Fadeev Medal.
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Who is Vitaly Efimov?
Russian physicist
When was Vitaly Efimov born?
Vitaly Efimov was born in 1938 in Saint Petersburg.
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Vitaly Efimov is a physicist, university teacher and theoretical physicist.
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Vitaly Efimov is known for Efimov State.
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Vitaly Efimov is Russian.
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