Lev Landau
1908 CE–1968 CE · Baku
Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was considered as one of the last scientists who were universally well-versed and made seminal contributions to all branches of physics. He is credited with laying the foundations of twentieth century condensed matter physics, and is also considered arguably the greatest Soviet theoretical physicist. 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, invention of order parameter technique, the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, the theory of Fermi liquids, 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).
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- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin· 1900 CE–1979 CE
- Werner Heisenberg· 1901 CE–1976 CE
- Paul Dirac· 1902 CE–1984 CE
- Andrey Kolmogorov· 1903 CE–1987 CE
- George Gamow· 1904 CE–1968 CE
- J. Robert Oppenheimer· 1904 CE–1967 CE
- Kurt Gödel· 1906 CE–1978 CE
- Ernst Chain· 1906 CE–1979 CE
- Hideki Yukawa· 1907 CE–1981 CE
- Homi J. Bhabha· 1909 CE–1966 CE
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- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
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- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
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