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| complete name: |
Lev Davidovich Landau (Дау) |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
1962 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 was awarded to Lev Davidovich Landau "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Lev |
| family name: |
Landau |
| nickname: |
Дау |
| occupation: |
professor |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
inventor |
| occupation: |
non-fiction writer |
| occupation: |
theoretical physicist |
| field of work: |
theoretical physics |
| work location: |
University of Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Russian Empire |
| description: |
Lev Davidovich Landau (Дау) 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 2.17 K (−270.98 °C). |
| pronunciation: |
(Russian: Лев Давидович Ландау; IPA: [lʲɛv dɐˈvidəvʲitɕ lɐnˈda.u]) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1962/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1908 |
| date death: |
1968 |
| usual name: |
Lev Landau |
