Lev Davidovich Landau

Lev Landau

Born	Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-01-22)22 January 1908 Baku, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1 April 1968(1968-04-01) (aged 60) Moscow, Soviet Union
Residence	Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute and Kharkiv University (later Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology) Institute for Physical Problems (RAS) MSU Faculty of Physics
Education	Baku Economical Technical School
Alma mater	Baku State University Leningrad State University (diploma, 1927) Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute (D.Sc., 1934)
Academic advisors	Niels Bohr
Doctoral students	Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
Other notable students	Evgeny Lifshitz
Known for	Landau damping Landau distribution Landau gauge Landau pole Landau potential Landau quantization Landau theory Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence Ginzburg–Landau theory Landau–Lifshitz aeroacoustic equation Landau-Raychaudhuri equation Landau–Zener formula Landau–Lifshitz model Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect Landau–Yang theorem Superfluidity Superconductivity Course of Theoretical Physics
Notable awards	Stalin Prize (1946) Max Planck Medal (1960) Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)
Spouse	K. T. Drobanzeva (married 1937; 1 child) (1908–1984)

Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Давидович Ландау; IPA: [lʲɛv dɐˈvidəvʲitɕ lɐnˈda.u]; January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. 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, the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, the theory of Fermi liquid, 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 7000217000000000000♠2.17 K (7000216999999999995♠−270.98 °C).