# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-popov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:57:13.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-popov"
name: "Victor Popov"
slug: "victor-popov"
description: "Victor Nikolaevich Popov was a Russian theoretical physicist known for his contribution to the quantization of non-abelian gauge fields. His work with Ludvig Faddeev on that subject introduced the fundamental objects now known as Faddeev–Popov ghosts."
tagline: "Russian physicist (1937–1994)"
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birthDate: "1937-10-27"
deathDate: "1994-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump