18 Facts About Vladimir Gribov

Vladimir Naumovich Gribov was a prominent Russian theoretical physicist, who worked on high-energy physics, quantum field theory and the Regge theory of the strong interactions.

Vladimir Gribov's best known contributions are the pomeron, the DGLAP equations, and the Gribov copies.

Vladimir Gribov's father died in 1938 as a result of disease.

Vladimir Gribov had to accept his awkwardness in such things and so chose another direction: physics.

Vladimir Gribov spent two years doing this, but in 1954, after Stalin's death, he joined the Ioffe Institute in Leningrad, and soon became the de facto leader of the theoretical department.

Vladimir Gribov was not an open political dissident, but he had a reputation as an independent and critical thinker.

In 1980, Vladimir Gribov became a professor at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow, and in the 1990s he was appointed a scientific advisor at the Central Research Institute for Physics in Budapest.

Vladimir Gribov received the 1991 Sakurai Prize, the 1991 Alexander von Humboldt Prize, and was the first recipient of the Landau Prize awarded by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Vladimir Gribov was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971 and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Vladimir Gribov was twice married and together with his first wife, the physicist Lilya Dubinskaya, had a son Lenya Gribov.

Vladimir Gribov founded and led an influential school of theoretical elementary particle physics in Leningrad.

Vladimir Gribov was widely admired for his physical intuition, which was often compared to that of two other prominent members of the Landau seminar Arkady Migdal and Isaak Pomeranchuk and even of Lev Landau himself.

Vladimir Gribov went on to formulate the reggeon field theory, a perturbative framework for analyzing reggeon exchange.

In quantum field theory, Vladimir Gribov was instrumental in understanding how Regge behavior emerges from field theories which are described by point-particles.

Vladimir Gribov developed the parton model with a different focus than Richard Feynman, using partons to give a qualitative description of the pomeron as a diffusive process.

Vladimir Gribov was the first to note that covariant gauge fixing in a non-abelian gauge theory leaves a large amount of gauge freedom unfixed, which separates the Gauge field phase space into oddly shaped regions called Vladimir Gribov copies which have the property that it is difficult to stay in any one copy while randomly walking around field space.

Vladimir Gribov noted that this is crucial for gluon confinement, since a mass gap precisely means that the field fluctuations are of a bounded size.

Zeldovich believed that only a rotating black hole could emit radiation, while Vladimir Gribov believed that even a non-rotating black hole emits radiation due to the laws of quantum mechanics.