| Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov | |
| Birth Date: | 2 May 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Leningrad |
| Death Place: | Dubna |
| Work Institution: | Landau Institute Ioffe Institute University of Bonn |
| Known For: | DGLAP evolution equations |
| Prizes: | Pomeranchuk Prize (2001) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2015) |
Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Липа́тов; 2 May 1940, in Leningrad – 4 September 2017, in Dubna)[1] was a Russian physicist, well known for his contributions to nuclear physics and particle physics. He has been the head of Theoretical Physics Division [2] at St. Petersburg's Nuclear Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Gatchina and an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1]
For the long period he worked with Vladimir Gribov, laying a basis for a field theory description of deep inelastic scattering and annihilation (Gribov-Lipatov evolution equations, later known as DGLAP, 1972). He wrote significant papers of the Pomeranchuk singularity in Quantum chromodynamics (1977) what resulted in deriving the BFKL evolution equation (Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov), contributed to the study of critical phenomena (semiclassical Lipatov's approximation), the theory of tunnelling and renormalon contribution to effective couplings. He discovered the connection between high-energy scattering and the exactly solvable models (1994).