Lev Landau
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Lev Landau 🇦🇿

Лев Давидович Ландау
["Theoretical Physicist", "Polymath", "Nobel Laureate"]
Born Jan 22, 1908 🇦🇿 Baku, Russian Empire
Passed Away Apr 01, 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union
Lifespan 60 years old
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Archival Overview

Legendary Soviet theoretical physicist whose genius spanned superfluidity, superconductivity, Fermi liquid theory, and plasma physics, authoring the monumental Course of Theoretical Physics.

Biographical Record

Lev Landau (1908–1968) was born in Baku and studied in Leningrad and across Western Europe with Niels Bohr. He developed the mathematical theory of phase transitions, Landau levels in quantum mechanics, Landau damping in plasma physics, and the quantum theory of superfluidity.

Alongside Evgeny Lifshitz, he authored the multi-volume 'Course of Theoretical Physics', the definitive graduate encyclopedia of modern physics. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics while recovering in a hospital bed from a catastrophic car collision.

Key Life Milestones

1941

Quantum Theory of Superfluidity

Introduced phonons and rotons to explain the quantum hydrodynamic behavior of liquid helium.

1962

Nobel Prize in Physics

Awarded the Nobel Prize for pioneering theories concerning condensed matter, especially liquid helium.

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Novodevichy Cemetery
Moscow, Russia
GPS: 55.7252, 37.5540
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