Ilya Lifshitz
Ilya Lifshitz · Science & Medicine
Physicist; theory of disordered systems and the electron theory of metals
1917, Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1982, Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Soviet Union (Ukraine · Russia)
Ilya Lifshitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; theory of disordered systems and the electron theory of metals
Ilya Lifshitz was a Soviet theoretical physicist who founded the modern theory of disordered systems and made fundamental contributions to the electron theory of metals, including the concept now known as the Lifshitz transition. He was Jewish. His work underpins much of contemporary condensed-matter physics.
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Physicist; theory of disordered systems and the electron theory of metals
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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