Mikhail Shifman

Mikhail Shifman
Born	(1949-04-04) April 4, 1949 (age 75) Riga, Latvia
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known for	Penguin mechanism Quantum Chromodynamics KSVZ axion Nonperturbative supersymmetry Supersymmetric gauge theories
Awards	Humboldt Research Award (1993) Sakurai Prize (1999) Lilienfeld Prize (2006) Chaires Blaise Pascal (2007) Pomeranchuk Prize (2013) ICTP Dirac Medal (2016) Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2018) Fulbright Distinguished Scholar (2022) Regents Professor of the University of Minnesota (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical High Energy Physics
Institutions	William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)
Academic advisors	Boris L. Ioffe, Arkady Vainshtein, Valentine I. Zakharov

Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman (Russian: Михаи́л Арка́дьевич Ши́фман; born 4 April 1949) is a theoretical physicist (high energy physics), formerly at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, currently^[update] Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota.