Vladimir Naumovich Gribov (born 25.03.1930) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972). He was born in Leningrad. He graduated from Leningrad University (1952). In 1954 — 71 he worked at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, from 1971 at the B. P. Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Gatchina), and from 1968 he has also been professor at Leningrad University.
His work is in the physics of elementary particles and in quantum field theory. He laid the foundations of the method of complex angular momenta and formulated the most characteristic features of the theory. He made a number of predictions about the behaviour of the scattering cross-sections of high-energy particles; in particular he gave a theoretical justification (1961) for the increase in the radius of the strong interaction of particles as their energy increases. Independently of D. V. Volkov he established the “conspiracy” of Regge poles (1962). The L. D. Landau Prize (1971).