Alexei L. Efros

Alexei Efros
Born (1938-08-11) August 11, 1938
Leningrad, USSR
Residence Salt Lake City, Utah
Citizenship Russian, American
Alma mater Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
Awards Landau Prize (1986)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (1992)
Humboldt Prize (1997)
Scientific career
Institutions Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
UC Riverside
University of Utah
Theses
  • Quantum Theory of Conductivity in Strong Magnetic Fields (1962)
  • Theory of Heavily doped semiconductors (1972)

Alexei Lvovich Efros (Russian: Алексей Львович Эфрос) is an American physicist, currently a Distinguished Professor at University of Utah.[1][2][3]

Biography

Efros was born in 1938 in Leningrad, USSR. He received his Master of Science from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1961, and his PhD from the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in 1962. Following graduation, he continued working at the Ioffe Institute and in the process received a second PhD in 1972 in semiconductor physics. In 1986, he received the Landau Prize in theoretical physics from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1987 he was promoted to Principal Scientist at the Ioffe Institute and served as a professor in the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989 he emigrated to the United States and was a visiting distinguished scholar at University of California, Riverside. In 1991, he moved to the University of Utah and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 1994. In 1992 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "for his work on the theory of transport in disordered systems".[4] In 1997, he received the Humboldt Prize.[5]

Personal life

Efros's son, Alexei A. Efros is an associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Distinguished Professors List". University of Utah. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Efros, A. L." worldcat.org. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Alexei Efros" (PDF). utah.edu. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ "APS Fellowship". APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Alexei L. Efros - Cirriculum Vitae". University of Utah Department of Physics. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Alexei A. Efros homepage". EECS Department. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 26 April 2017.


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