[1] Fradkin was born in Shchedrin near Zhlobin (now Belarus), then in the Soviet Union, in 1924.
That same year he began working at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Fradkin has used the methods of functional analysis in the theory of relativists fields.
He obtained renormalized field theory equations and studied their solution.
He also introduced functional methods into quantum statistics, in which he developed the diagram technique.