Boris Shklovskii


Boris Ionowitsch Shklovskii is a theoretical physicist, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in condensed matter. Shklovskii earned his A.B. degree in Physics, in 1966 and a Ph.D. in condensed matter theory, in 1968 from Leningrad University.
Shklovskii is known for the Efros–Shklovskii variable-range hopping conductivity, a model for the temperature dependence of the hopping conductivity in the variable-range hopping regime.

Honors and awards

Shklovskii was awarded the Landau Prize of Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1986, the A.S. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics in 1990, and was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997.
In 2018, he received the 2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize for "pioneering research in the physics of disordered materials and hopping conductivity" together with Alexei L. Efros and Elihu Abrahams.