Hristo Yankov Hristov (born 12.06.1915) is a Bulgarian theoretical physicist and a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1961). He was born in Varna. He graduated from Sofia University (1938), where he worked in 1946-62 (professor from 1952). Since 1963 he has been at the Physical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 1968 — 70 he was vice-director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna).
His work concerned classical mechanics (the axiomatic approach), relativity, quantum mechanics, scattering theory (multiple scattering of particles in various materials), quantum field theory and elementary particle physics.
The Dimitrov Prize (1952).