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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectL. D. Landau
Dates
January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968
Authorized Form of Name
Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968
Additional Forms of Names
Dau, 1908-1968
Landau, 1908-1968
Landau, Lev Davidovich, 1908-1968
Landau, Lew, 1908-1968
Landau, Lew Davidovich, 1908-1968
Lantāvu, Lev, 1908-1968
Ландау, Л. (Лев), 1908-1968
Ландау, Л. Д. (Лев Давидович), 1908-1968
Ландау, Лев Давидович, 1908-1968
לב דודוביץ, לנדאו
لانداو, ليف, 1908-1968
Biography
Abstract
Lev Landau was a condensed matter physicst. He was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium."
Important Dates
January 22, 1908Birth, Baku (Azerbaijan).
1927Obtained BS in Physics, Saint Petersburg State University (Sankt-Peterburgskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet), Saint Petersburg (Russia).
1929 – 1931Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, New York (N.Y.).
1932 – 1937Head, Theoretical Department, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology (Khar'kovskiĭ fiziko-tekhnicheskiĭ institut), Kharʹkov (Ukraine).
1934Obtained Doctorate in Physics, Saint Petersburg State University (Sankt-Peterburgskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet), Saint Petersburg (Russia).
1937 – 1962Head, Theoretical Division Institute for Physical Problems and elected Member (1946), Russian Academy of Sciences (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk), Moscow (Russia).
1951Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab).
1956Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen).
1960Awarded Max Planck Medal, German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft).
1960Awarded Fritz London Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
1962Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium".
April 01, 1968Death, Moscow (Russia).
Occupation
Superfluidity and condensed matter physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
Abrikosov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Alekseevich)
Advised by Landau at Institute for Physical Problems, thesis on thermal diffusion in completely and incompletely ionized plasmas.
Postdoctoral advisor at University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet).
Ginzburg, V. L. (Vitaliĭ Lazarevich), 1916-2009
Advised by Landau at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk).
Gor'kov, L. P. (Lev Petrovich), 1929-
Advised by Landau the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk).
Gribov, V. N. (Vladimir N.)
Advised by Landau at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk).
Ioffe, A. F. (Abram Fedorovich), 1880-1960
PhD advisor at Saint Petersburg State University (Sankt-Peterburgskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet).
Khalatnikov, I. M. (Isaak Markovich)
Advised by Landau at Institute for Physical Problems.
Lifshits, I. M. (Il'ia Mikhailovich)
Advised by Landau at Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology (Khar'kovskiĭ fiziko-tekhnicheskiĭ institut).
Advised by Landau at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk).
Additional
Akhiezer, A. I. (Aleksandr Il'ich), 1911-2000
Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-
Bakaĭ, A. S. (Aleksandr Stepanovich)
Bell, J. S.
Bessarab, Maĭi︠a︡
Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909-2000
Herring, William Conyers, 1914-
Hoddeson, Lillian
Hund, Friedrich, 1896-1997
Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles
Kitaĭgorodskiĭ, A. I. (Aleksandr Isaakovich), 1914-1985
Kurchatov, I. V. (Igorʹ Vasilʹevich), 1903-1960
Lasarev, Boris G.
Migdal, A. B. (Arkadii Beinusovich), 1911-1991
Moller, C. (Christian), 1904-1980
Nordheim, Lothar, 1899-
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Pippard, A. B.
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Ryndina, Ella
Shalnikov, Aleksandr Iosifovich
Shoenberg, D. (David)
Smorodinskiĭ, I︠A︡. A. (I︠A︡ov Abramovich)
Stromgren, Bengt, 1908-1987
Tisza, Laszlo, 1907-2009
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007
Institutions
Major Positions
Khar'kovskii fiziko-tekhnicheskii institut
Head, Theoretical Department.
Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk
Member and Head, Theoretical Division Institute for Physical Problems.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (1963- )
Awarded 1960 Max Planck Medal.
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
Awarded 1960 Fritz London Prize.
Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab
Member.
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
Member.
Rockefeller Foundation
Fellow.
Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi universitet informatsionnykh tekhnologii, mekhaniki I optiki
Obtained BS in Physics (1927) and Doctorate in Physics (1934).
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Golden stock: list of quantum physics articles, 1933-1941, selected by Lev Landau.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
A. I Akhiezer recollections of Lev Davidovich Landau.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Aleksander I. Shalnikov papers, 1920s-1990s.
Archive
Russian Academy of Sciences
ul. Novocheremushkinskaia, 34, Moscow, 117218, Russia
Centenary of Lev Landau [audiorecording], 2009 March 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
From a life of physics [motion picture] / produced by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Igor V. Kurchatov papers.
Kurchatov Museum.
Kurchatov, I. V., Institute of Atomic Energy.
ul. Kurchatova, 46, Moscow 123182, Russia
John Bardeen papers, 1910-1991.
University Archives
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Landau: the physicist and the man, [videorecording] given at Princeton University, 1997 April 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lines to the portrait of Lev Landau by E. Ryndina
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Memoirs of a private life with Lev Landau 1970s.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr collection of manuscripts by other authors, 1910-1961.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oral history interview with A. B. Migdal, 1977 May 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alexander Ilich Akhiezer, 1991 January.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alexander Ilich Akhiezer, 1995 November-December.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alexander S. Bakai 1995 March 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alfred Brian Pippard, 1982 September 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1978 April 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys, 1997 March.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Boris G. Lasarev 1995 January-February.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Friedrich Weizsacker, 1978 April 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Christian Møller, 1963 July 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Christian Møller, 1971 August 25, 26 and October 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Shoenberg, 1981 February 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Friedrich Hund, 1963 June 25 and 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with George Gamow, 1968 April 25 and 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, 1963 July 5 and 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Laszlo Tisza, 1987 November 15, 1988 January 12 and April 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1, 19, 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 1977 July 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Morrel H. Cohen, 1981 March 31 and June 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with P. W. Anderson [videorecording]: 1999-2002.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with P. W. Anderson, 1988 May 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Philip Anderson, 1999 March 30, May 30, November 23 and June 29, 2000.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Richard Courant, 1962 May 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1977 May 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1981 May 13 and July.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1963 June 17 and 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Stanley Deser, 2011 March 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Victor Frederick Weisskopf, 1963 July 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Vitali Ginzburg, 1990 September 25, 1992 March 28 and July 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 1974 July 23, 29, and 31 October.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Physical Problems records, 1935-1982.
Institute for Physical Problems
ul. A. N. Kosygina 2, Moscow 117973, Russia
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls papers and correspondence, 1898-1996.
Bodleian Library. Department of Western Manuscripts
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK
Spark of a life in physics [videorecording]: a lecture on the life of L.D. Landau / Colloquium at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2004 March 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Chto takoe teoriia otnositelnosti /L. D. Landau, IU. B. Rumer.
Collected papers of L.D. Landau. Edited and with an introd. by D. ter Haar.
Elektrodinamika sploshnykh sred / L.D. Landau i E.M. Lifshit︠s︡.
Kvantovaia mekhanika L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshits.
Kvantovaia mekhanika: nereliativistskaia teoriia / L. D. Landau i E. M. Lifshits.
L.D. Landau/ [edited by] D. ter Haar.
Lectures on nuclear theory, by L.D. Landau and Ya. Smorodinsky. In english translation.
Mécanique / L. Landau et E. Lifchitz.
Mehvanika elektrodinamika / L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshits.
Statistical physics / by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz.
Stranitsy iz zhizni Landau /Maĭi︠a︡ Bessarab.
Teoriia polia / L. D. Landau i E. M. Lifshits.
Teoriia uprugosti / L.D. Landau i E.M. Lifshits.
Théorie des champs. / L. Landau et E. Lifchitz; [traduit du russe par Edouard Gloukhian].
Subject
Akademik Landau: kak my zhili: vospominanii︠a︡ / Kora Landau-Drobant︠s︡eva.
Encyclopaedia Britannica - Lev Davidovich Landau.
Formula schastʹi︠a︡ Landau / Maĭi︠a︡ Bessarab
Gidrodinamika / L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshits.
Krug Landau / Boris Gorobet︠s︡.
Landau, a great physicist and teacher / by Anna Livanova; translated by J.B. Sykes.
Landau: stranit︠s︡y zhizni / M.I︠A︡. Bessarab.
Lev Landau Nobel Prize biography.
The man they wouldn't let die.
Under the spell of Landau: when theoretical physics was shaping destinies/ editor, M. Shifman.