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4 unusual facts about Lev Landau


David P. Landau

Not to be confused with Lev Landau.

Eugene Chudnovsky

Chudnovsky received his undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral education at Kharkov University in Ukraine, in a school of theoretical physics built by Lev Landau and his students.

Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Dau is a film based on the life of Soviet physicist Lev Landau.

Kharkiv Theoretical Physics School

The Kharkiv Theoretical Physics School was founded by Lev Landau in Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Kharkiv, Ukraine).


Dolgoprudny

In 1951, the famous Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology or Fiztekh, moved to Dolgoprudny, and a construction of its present campus started in the southern part of the town, inspired by the Nobel Prize winners Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Landau, and Nikolay Semyonov.

Gennady Gorelik

A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th-century Russian physicists, Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.

Mikhail Rabinovich

In 1986, he co-authored chapters on the evolution of turbulence in the seminal textbook Course of Theoretical Physics ( (Fluid Mechanics Volume) of Lifshitz and Landau.


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