Efim Fradkin

 Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (Russian: "Ефим Самойлович Фрадкин") (November 30, 1924 – May 25, 1999) was a Russian physicist.
Fradkin was born in Schedrin near Zhlobin (now Belarus), then in the Soviet Union, in 1924. 
He was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1953 (Stalin Prize of First Degree), Igor Tamm Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1980, and the Dirac Prize of ICTP in 1989.
In 1996-1997, Fradkin was a guest professor of the director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and a member of the organization's Theory Division.