Victor Popov
Born	27 October 1937
Died	16 April 1994 (1994-04-17) (aged 56)
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Known for	quantization of gauge fields; Faddeev–Popov ghosts
Scientific career
Fields	Quantum field theory
Institutions	Steklov Institute of Mathematics

Victor Nikolaevich Popov (Russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Попо́в; 27 October 1937 – 16 April 1994) 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.

Popov graduated from the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Physics Faculty of Leningrad State University. Popov formed a group at Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (LOMI) in early 1965, where he remained for life.^[1]

• L. D. Faddeev, L; V. N. Popov (1967). "Feynman diagrams for the Yang-Mills field". Physics Letters B. 25 (1): 29–30. Bibcode:1967PhLB...25...29F. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(67)90067-6.
• Konopleva N. P., Popov V. N. (1982): Gauge Fields. Gordon & Breach Publishing Group. ISBN 3-7186-0045-5. (Originally published in Russian in 1972)

• L. Faddeev, How I came to work with Victor Popov, Journal of Mathematical Sciences 88 (2), 111—113 (1998).
• N. P. Konopleva, To the memory of V. N. Popov, Journal of Mathematical Sciences 88 (2), 114—115 (1998).