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) 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.

Shifman is known for a number of basic contributions to quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, and to understanding of supersymmetric gauge dynamics.

The most important results due to M. Shifman are diverse and include (i) the discovery of the penguin mechanism in the flavor-changing weak decays (1974);[1] (ii) introduction of the gluon condensate and development of the SVZ sum rules relating properties of the low-lying hadronic states to the vacuum condensates (1979);[2] (iii) introduction of the invisible (aka KSVZ) axion (1980)[3] (iv) first exact results in supersymmetric Yang–Mills theories (NSVZ beta function, gluino condensate,1983–1988);[4] (v) heavy quark theory based on the operator product expansion (1985–1995);[5] (vi) critical domain walls (D-brane analogs) in super-Yang-Mills (1996);[6] (vii) non-perturbative (exact) planar equivalence between super-Yang–Mills and orientifold non-supersymmetric theories (2003);[7] (viii) non-Abelian flux tubes and confined monopoles (2004 till present).

In 2024, Mikhail Shifman was appointed as the University of Minnesota Regents Professor.