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Lev Landau
Лев Ландау
Landau in 1962
Born
Lev Davidovich Landau
(1908-01-22)22 January 1908
Baku, Russian Empire (now Baku, Azerbaijan)
Died
1 April 1968(1968-04-01) (aged 60)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting place
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Citizenship
Russian Empire Soviet Union Azerbaijan Democratic Republic[citation needed]
Education
Baku Economical Technical School
Alma mater
Baku State University Leningrad State University (diploma, 1927) Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute (D.Sc., 1934)
Known for
List
Landau damping
Landau distribution
Landau gauge
Landau pole
Landau susceptibility
Landau free energy
Landau quantization
Landau's Fermi liquid theory
Landau's phase transition theory
Landau–Squire jet
Landau–Levich problem
Stuart–Landau equation
Ginzburg–Landau theory
Darrieus–Landau instability
Landau kinetic equation
Landau singularities
Landau–Raychaudhuri equation
Landau–Zener formula
Landau–Pekar equations
Landau–Teller model
Landau–Lifshitz fluctuating hydrodynamics
Landau–Lifshitz model
Landau–Lifshitz pseudotensor
Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect
Landau–Lifshitz force
Guderley–Landau–Stanyukovich problem
Landau–Placzek ratio
Landau–Yang theorem
Landau derivative
Ivanenko–Landau–Kähler equation
Landau–Lifshitz aeroacoustic equation
Landau principle
Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence
Density matrix
DLVO theory
Open quantum system
Polaron
Roton
Superfluidity
Superconductivity
Course of Theoretical Physics
Quantum hydrodynamics
Quasiparticle theory
Zero sound
Second sound
Antiferromagnetism
Spouse
K. T. Drobanzeva (married 1937; 1 child) (1908–1984)
Awards
Stalin Prize (1946) Max Planck Medal (1960) Fritz London Memorial Prize (1960) Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)
Scientific career
Fields
Theoretical physics
Institutions
Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and Kharkiv University (later Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology) Institute for Physical Problems (RAS) MSU Faculty of Physics
Academic advisors
Niels Bohr
Doctoral students
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov Aleksandr Ilyich Akhiezer Igor Ekhielevich Dzyaloshinskii Lev Gor'kov Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii
Other notable students
Evgeny Lifshitz
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.[1][2][3] He was also involved in the design of the Soviet atomic bomb.
His accomplishments include the independent co-discovery of the density matrix method[4][5] 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,[6] 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.[7] 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).[8]
^McCauley, Martin (1997). Who's Who in Russia Since 1900. Routledge. p. 128. Landau, Lev Davydovich (1908-68), a brilliant Soviet theoretical physicist, who was born into a Jewish family in Baku and graduated from Leningrad State University in 1927.
^Zubok, Vladislav (2012). "Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin's Death and Their Visions of the Cold War's End". In Bozo, Frédéric; Rey, Marie-Pierre; Rother, Bernd; Ludlow, N. Piers (eds.). Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990. Berghahn Books. p. 78.
^Cite error: The named reference ScientificAmerican1997 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Lev Landau (1927). "Das Dämpfungsproblem in der Wellenmechanik (The Damping Problem in Wave Mechanics)". Zeitschrift für Physik. 45 (5–6): 430–441. Bibcode:1927ZPhy...45..430L. doi:10.1007/bf01343064. S2CID 125732617. English translation reprinted in: D. Ter Haar, ed. (1965). Collected papers of L.D. Landau. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
^Schlüter, Michael; Lu Jeu Sham (1982). "Density functional theory". Physics Today. 35 (2): 36. Bibcode:1982PhT....35b..36S. doi:10.1063/1.2914933. S2CID 126232754. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013.
^Fisher, Michael E. (1 April 1998). "Renormalization group theory: Its basis and formulation in statistical physics". Reviews of Modern Physics. 70 (2): 653–681. Bibcode:1998RvMP...70..653F. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.70.653.
^Shifman, M., ed. (2013). Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destinies. World Scientific. doi:10.1142/8641. ISBN 978-981-4436-56-4.
^Kapitza, P. L.; Lifshitz, E. M. (1969). "Lev Davydovitch Landau 1908–1968". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 15: 140–158. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1969.0007.
Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many...
initiated by LevLandau and written in collaboration with his student Evgeny Lifshitz starting in the late 1930s. It is said that Landau composed much...
after the Soviet physicist LevLandau. Landau quantization contributes to the magnetic susceptibility of metals, known as Landau diamagnetism. Under strong...
Physical Problems). The Landau Institute was formed in 1964 to keep the Landau school alive after the tragic car accident of Lev D. Landau. Since its foundation...
Landau theory (also known as Ginzburg–Landau theory, despite the confusing name) in physics is a theory that LevLandau introduced in an attempt to formulate...
In probability theory, the Landau distribution is a probability distribution named after LevLandau. Because of the distribution's "fat" tail, the moments...
becomes infinite. Such a possibility was pointed out by the physicist LevLandau and his colleagues. The fact that couplings depend on the momentum (or...
In physics, Landau damping, named after its discoverer, Soviet physicist Lev Davidovich Landau (1908–68), is the effect of damping (exponential decrease...
performing Coulomb collisions in a plasma. The equation was derived by LevLandau in 1936 as an alternative to the Boltzmann equation in the case of Coulomb...
{\mathrm {def} }{=}}\ F-\mu N=U-TS-\mu N} named after Russian physicist LevLandau, which may be a synonym for the grand potential, depending on system stipulations...
The DLVO theory (named after Boris Derjaguin and LevLandau, Evert Verwey and Theodoor Overbeek) explains the aggregation and kinetic stability of aqueous...
describes diamagnetism in a free electron gas is called Landau diamagnetism, named after LevLandau, and instead considers the weak counteracting field that...
mechanics. The theory of quasiparticles was started by the Soviet physicist LevLandau in the 1930s. Solids are made of only three kinds of particles: electrons...
the Indian physicist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri and the Soviet physicist LevLandau. Given a timelike unit vector field X → {\displaystyle {\vec {X}}} (which...
important open problems in the subject of classical gravitation. With LevLandau, Lifshitz co-authored Course of Theoretical Physics, an ambitious series...
Originally, the roton spectrum was phenomenologically introduced by LevLandau in 1947. Currently there exist models which try to explain the roton spectrum...
transition to the superfluid state. Lev Pitaevskii was educated at the Landau school in Moscow. He was a PhD student of LevLandau and during the first years of...
magnetism. The phenomenon of antiferromagnetism was first introduced by LevLandau in 1933. Generally, antiferromagnetic order may exist at sufficiently...
theory of Fermi liquids was introduced by the Soviet physicist Lev Davidovich Landau in 1956, and later developed by Alexei Abrikosov and Isaak Khalatnikov...
Korets [ru] and LevLandau, wrote the Korets-Landau leaflet which directly condemned Joseph Stalin and the secret police NKVD. Korets and Landau, as well as...
electrons and atoms in a solid material. The polaron concept was proposed by LevLandau in 1933 and Solomon Pekar in 1946 to describe an electron moving in a...
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