Arkady Migdal
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Arkady Migdal was a prominent Soviet theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, and many-body theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arkady Migdal canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630584 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arkady Migdal Context triple: [Migdal approximation, historicallyAttributedTo, Arkady Migdal]
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A.
Sergei Gelfand
Sergei Gelfand is a mathematician known as one of the prominent students and collaborators of the influential Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.
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B.
Matvei Zakharov
Matvei Zakharov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who held key staff and command roles on the Eastern Front during World War II.
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C.
Sergey Ioffe
Sergey Ioffe is a computer scientist and researcher in machine learning, best known for co-authoring the influential Batch Normalization technique widely used in deep neural networks.
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D.
Georgy Zakharov
Georgy Zakharov was a Soviet Army general who held high-level command positions on the Eastern Front during World War II.
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E.
Luciano Faddeev
Luciano Faddeev was a prominent Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist known for his foundational contributions to quantum field theory, scattering theory, and the theory of integrable systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arkady Migdal Target entity description: Arkady Migdal was a prominent Soviet theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, and many-body theory.
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A.
Sergei Gelfand
Sergei Gelfand is a mathematician known as one of the prominent students and collaborators of the influential Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.
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B.
Matvei Zakharov
Matvei Zakharov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who held key staff and command roles on the Eastern Front during World War II.
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C.
Sergey Ioffe
Sergey Ioffe is a computer scientist and researcher in machine learning, best known for co-authoring the influential Batch Normalization technique widely used in deep neural networks.
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D.
Georgy Zakharov
Georgy Zakharov was a Soviet Army general who held high-level command positions on the Eastern Front during World War II.
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E.
Luciano Faddeev
Luciano Faddeev was a prominent Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist known for his foundational contributions to quantum field theory, scattering theory, and the theory of integrable systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet scientist
ⓘ
human ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Leningrad State University ⓘ |
| employer |
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
ⓘ
Lebedev Physical Institute ⓘ Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Migdal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
condensed matter physics
ⓘ
many-body theory ⓘ nuclear physics ⓘ quantum electrodynamics ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| genre | scientific literature ⓘ |
| givenName |
Arkady
ⓘ
linked to:
Arkadi
|
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
nuclear many-body problem
ⓘ
quantum field theory ⓘ |
| hasNotableStudent | Alexander Migdal ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Alexander Migdal ⓘ |
| influenced |
theory of nuclear structure
ⓘ
theory of superconductivity ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Enrico Fermi
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Lev Landau ⓘ Niels Bohr ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Migdal theorem on Fermi systems
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Migdal–Eliashberg theory of superconductivity ⓘ
linked to:
Eliashberg theory
Migdal–Watson approach to final-state interactions ⓘ development of many-body methods in nuclear physics ⓘ work on quantum electrodynamics in media ⓘ |
| memberOf |
USSR Academy of Sciences
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linked to:
Soviet Academy of Sciences
|
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Migdal theorem on vertex corrections in electron-phonon systems
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Migdal–Eliashberg strong-coupling theory ⓘ
linked to:
Eliashberg theory
|
| notableWork |
Migdal theorem
ⓘ
linked to:
Migdal approximation
Migdal–Eliashberg theory ⓘ
linked to:
Eliashberg theory
Migdal–Watson approximation ⓘ
linked to:
Migdal approximation
|
| occupation |
physicist
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ |
| partOf |
Landau school of theoretical physics
ⓘ
linked to:
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studentOf | Lev Landau ⓘ |
| workLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
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Subject: Arkady Migdal Description of subject: Arkady Migdal was a prominent Soviet theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, and many-body theory.
Referenced by (5)
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