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Lev Landau

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

Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)

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Lev Landau (1908–1968) was a Russian physicist, inventor, non-fiction writer, and university teacher. Born in Baku, he was educated at Baku State University under doctoral advisor Abram Ioffe. His academic and professional career included positions at the National University of Kharkiv, the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, the P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS, and the Ioffe Institute. He served as a doctoral advisor to Alexei Abrikosov, Aleksandr Akhiezer, Mark Azbel, and Isaak Pomeranchuk.

Landau received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Stalin Prize, the Order of Lenin, and the title of Hero of Socialist Labour. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. His written works include *Physics for Everyone* and *Que Es La Teoria de La Relatividad ?*. He died in Moscow of thrombosis and intestinal disease and was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • Physics for Everyone
  • Que Es La Teoria de La Relatividad ?

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Music · MusicBrainz

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Thought and language.

    · 1962 · cited 6,791x

  2. Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

    · 1997 · cited 6,229x

  3. A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?

    · 2011 · cited 6,040x

  4. Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases

    · 1999 · cited 4,927x

  5. Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes

    · 2013 · cited 4,887x

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Quotes

  • “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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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1962

    “for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium”

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Encyclopedic overview

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).

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