Shklovskiĭ, B. I. 1944-

Boris Ionovich Shklovskii (born 1944) is a Russian theoretical physicist, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in condensed matter. Shklovskii earned his A.B. degree in Physics, in 1966 and a Ph.D. in condensed matter theory, in 1968 from Leningrad University. 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 Quantum Hall effect (explaining the structure of conducting edge channels and predicting the formation of Quantum Hall stripe and bubble phases) and to the theory of macromolecules (developing the theory of electrostatic charge inversion).