Evgeny Lifshitz
Evgeny Lifshitz · Science & Medicine
Physicist; co-author of the Landau-Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics
1915, Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1985, Moscow, Russia
Soviet Union
Evgeny Lifshitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-author of the Landau-Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics
Evgeny Lifshitz was a Soviet physicist best known as co-author, with Lev Landau, of the monumental ten-volume Course of Theoretical Physics, the standard graduate reference worldwide. He also did notable work in cosmology and the theory of van der Waals forces. He was of documented Jewish origin.
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Physicist; co-author of the Landau-Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics
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