Lev Davidovich Landau
He made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics
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).
Here's a time line of Dr. Landau's life:
- 1908 Landau was born on 22 January to Jewish parentsin Baku, Azerbaijan, in what was then the Russian Empire.
- 1920 Landau graduated at age 13 from gymnasium
- 1922 at age 14, he matriculated at the Baku State University
- 1924 he moved to the main centre of Soviet physics at the time: the Physics Department of Leningrad State University.
- 1962He received 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).
- 1954 he was awarded the title "Hero of Socialist Labour"
- 1962 On 7 January, Landau's car collided with an oncoming truck
- 1965 In June, Lev Landau and Yevsei Liberman published a letter in the New York Times, stating that as Soviet Jews they opposed U.S. intervention on behalf of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
- 1968 Landau died on 1 April aged 60, from complications of the injuries sustained in the car accident he was involved in six years earlier
"Lev Davidovich Landau was a unique physicist and teacher of physicists."