Lev Landau
Lev Landau · Science & Medicine
Theoretical physicist; superfluidity theory, condensed matter, Nobel Prize 1962
1908, Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) — 1968, Moscow, Soviet Union
Soviet Union · Kharkiv · Moscow (Institute for Physical Problems)
Lev Landau is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Theoretical physicist; superfluidity theory, condensed matter, Nobel Prize 1962
Landau, born to a Jewish family in Baku — his father an engineer, his mother a physician — was a prodigy who reshaped nearly every branch of theoretical physics and built an influential Soviet school of physicists. His mathematical theory of superfluidity explained the frictionless flow of liquid helium and earned him the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics. He survived a year in Stalin's prison in 1938-39, freed only after fellow physicist Pyotr Kapitsa vouched for him, and the Nobel was awarded while he was gravely injured from a car crash.
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Theoretical physicist; superfluidity theory, condensed matter, Nobel Prize 1962
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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