Lev Landau - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1962
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Lev Landau

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1962
for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium
Citizenship
Russian Empire Russian Empire Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Soviet Union Soviet Union
Languages
English, Russian, French, Danish, German
date of birth
1/22/1908
place of birth
Baku
date of death
4/1/1968
place of death
Moscow
Lived
60 years

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member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1960
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/28/1960
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1960
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
    • start time: 1951
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 11/30/1946
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1956
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1956
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
employer
  • P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS
    • end time: 1962
    • start time: 1939
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
    • end time: 1947
    • start time: 1943
  • Ioffe Institute
    • start time: 1931
    • end time: 1932
  • National University of Kharkiv
    • start time: 1935
    • end time: 1937
  • Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
    • start time: 1932
    • end time: 1935
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
    • end time: 1938
    • start time: 1937
educated at
  • Baku State University
    • end time: 1924
    • start time: 1922
  • Baku Polytechnicum
    • end time: 1922
    • start time: 1921
  • Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University
    • start time: 1924
    • end time: 1927
notable work
  • Landau theory
  • Course of Theoretical Physics
  • Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect
  • Landau distribution
  • Landau pole
  • Landau damping
  • Landau–Lifshitz model
  • Ginzburg–Landau–Abrikosov–Gor'kov theory
  • Landau–Levich problem
  • Landau quantization
  • Landau–Zener formula
  • Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence
  • Darrieus–Landau instability
  • Landau–Squire jet
  • Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
  • Landau–Yang theorem
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • non-fiction writer
  • theoretical physicist
  • inventor
  • mathematician
field of work
  • theoretical physics
doctoral student
  • Alexander Andreev
  • Igor Dzyaloshinsky
  • Alexander Patashinski
  • Roald Sagdeev
  • Yakov Zeldovich
  • Isaak Khalatnikov
  • Alexei Abrikosov
  • Jakov Abramovič Smorodinskij
  • Isaak Pomeranchuk
  • Aleksandr Akhiezer
  • Aleksandr Kompaneyets
  • Mark Azbel
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