Lev Landau

Also known as Lev Davidovich Landau, Lev Davydovitch Landau, L. D. Landau

Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)

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Lev Landau was a Soviet theoretical physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to many areas of physics, including quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and the study of matter at extreme conditions. His work fundamentally advanced our understanding of how the physical world works, and he is remembered as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Russia
Active from: 1908
Active to: 1968

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Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases
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“Главное, делайте всё с увлечением, это страшно украшает жизнь.”
“This work contains many things which are new and interesting. Unfortunately, everything that is new is not interesting, and everything which is interesting, is not new.”
“In the 1930s Landau was already saying, "I am one of the few universal physicists"; after the death of Enrico Fermi, this became "I am the last of the universal physicists".”
“A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.”
“People who hear of some extraordinary phenomenon start proposing to explain it with improbable hypotheses. First consider the simplest explanation: that it's all nonsense.”

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Commons category: Lev Landau
date of birth: 1908-01-09
date of death: 1968-04-01
Erdős number: 5
nickname: Дау
name in native language: Лев Давидович Ландау
birth name: Лев Давидович Ландау
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Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was considered as one of the last scientists who were universally well-versed and made seminal contributions to all branches of physics. He is credited with laying the foundations of twentieth century condensed matter physics, and is also considered arguably the greatest Soviet theoretical physicist.

His accomplishments include the independent co-discovery of the density matrix method in quantum mechanics (alongside John von Neumann), the quantum mechanical theory of diamagnetism, the theory of superfluidity, the theory of second-order phase transitions, invention of order parameter technique, the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, the theory of Fermi liquids, the explanation of Landau damping in plasma physics, the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, the two-component theory of neutrinos, and Landau's equations for S-matrix singularities. He received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical theory of superfluidity that accounts for the properties of liquid helium II at a temperature below 2.17 K (−270.98 °C).