Boris Ionovich Shklovskii (born 1944) is a theoretical

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, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in

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. Shklovskii earned his A.B. degree in

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, in 1966 and a Ph.D. in

theory, in 1968 from

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Retrieved 28 April 2019. Shklovskii is known for the Efros–Shklovskii variable-range hopping conductivity, a model for the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity in the variable-range hopping regime. He has also made important contributions to the theory of the

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(explaining the structure of conducting edge channels and predicting the formation of Quantum Hall stripe and bubble phases) and to the theory of

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(developing the theory of electrostatic charge inversion).

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

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of the

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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 Elihu Abrahams (April 3, 1927 – October 18, 2018) was a theoretical physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics. Abrahams attended Brooklyn Technical High School, graduating in 1944. In 1947, Abrahams received his bachelor's degree and ...

. In 2023 he was elected to the

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