LANDAU, LEV DAVIDOVICH

(1908-68)

Russian physicist. Born in Baku, he studied at the University of Baku and the University of Leningrad. In 1929 he went to Copenhagen to study withNiels Bohr. From 1932 he was employed at the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute at Kharkov. In 1937 he became the head of the theoretical division of the Institute of Physical Problems in Moscow. In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for theories dealing with condensed matter.