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Lev Landau
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Lev Davidovic Landau was born in Baku on January 22, 1908, as the son of an engineer and a physician. After graduating from the Physical Department of Leningrad University at the age of 19, he began his scientific career at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute. Lev Landau died on April 1, 1968.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Lev Davidovich Landau:Lev Davidovich LandauUSSR Magazine—SovfotoSoviet theoretical physicist, one of the founders of the quantum theory of condensed matter whose pioneering research in this field was recognized with the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Lev Davidovich Landau (1908 - 1968)
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Lev Davidovich Landau Honours awarded to Lev Landau (Click below for those honoured in this way)
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Lev Davidovich Landau Lev Landau's mother had trained in medicine and she had undertaken work in physiology, while his father was a petroleum engineer who worked at the oil fields in Baku on the Caspian Sea.
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A near-fatal accident 40 years ago robbed theoretical physics of one its greatest minds. Although Lev Landau was never to work again, he was awarded the Nobel prize later that year and his legacy lives on to this day.
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Lev Landau died on April 1, 1968.
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Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-1968), Russian physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium.
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