Lev Landau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lev Landau

Soviet physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1908

Place of Birth: Baku

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1968

Profession: physicist, mathematician, inventor, university teacher, non-fiction writer, theoretical physicist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Lev Davidovich Landau (22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.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, the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, the theory of Fermi liquid, 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).