Dmitry Shirkov

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Dmitry Shirkov
Russian SFSR
Died23 January 2016(2016-01-23) (aged 87)
NationalityUSSR
Russia
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forsignificant contribution to quantum field theory and to the renormalization group method
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum field theory
Institutions
Doctoral advisorNikolay Bogolyubov

Dmitry Vasil'evich Shirkov (Russian: Дми́трий Васи́льевич Ширко́в; 3 March 1928 – 23 January 2016) was a Russian theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method.

Biography

Dmitry Shirkov graduated from the

Doktor nauk
(Doctor of Sciences) degree.

In 1972—1992 he was appointed as professor at the Department of Quantum Statistics and Field Theory at the MSU Faculty of Physics. Since 1992 he is a professor at the Department of High Energy Physics.

He worked in the

Steklov Mathematical Institute in the period 1952—1958 and in the Mathematical Institute of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the period 1960—1969. Since 1969 he works at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
(JINR), and since 1971 also at Moscow State University. He was the head of the Theoretical Physics Laboratory at the JINR (1993—1997), where currently he is the Honorary Director.

Dmitry Shirkov was an Invited Nobel Professor at

USSR Academy of Sciences in 1960 and an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
in 1994.

Dmitry Shirkov was the initiator and the editor for a series of monographs «Books in Theoretical Physics» by Nauka (Science) Publishing Company (1978—1990). He is a jury president for the

Bogoliubov Prize for young scientists. He died on 23 January 2016, aged 87.[1]

Research

Shirkov's main works were devoted to

Nikolay Bogoliubov, an axiomatic perturbation method for quantum field theory (1954—1958) and developed renormalization group method (1955—1956). He invented and developed the method of quantitative description of elastic and quasi-elastic hadron
collisions at low energies (1959—1970).

Publications

Books

  • N. N. Bogoliubov, V. V. Tolmachev, D. V. Shirkov (1958): A New Method in the Theory of Superconductivity. Moscow: Academy of Sciences Press. (in Russian).
— Kessinger Publishing, 2007. . (in English).

Selected papers

  1. V. F. Kovalev and D. V. Shirkov. The Bogoliubov renormalization group and solution symmetry in mathematical physics. Phys. Rep., 2001, v. 352, pp. 219–249.

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