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Lev Landau

1908 - 1968

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Landau is the 71st most popular physicist (down from 69th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Physicist.

Lev Landau was a Russian physicist who is most famous for his work in quantum mechanics. He is credited with the development of the theory of second-order phase transitions, which is now known as the Landau theory.

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Among physicists, Lev Landau ranks 71 out of 851. Before him are Max Born, Charles Glover Barkla, Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., and Philipp Lenard. After him are Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Ludwig Boltzmann, Max von Laue, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Edward Teller, and James Chadwick.

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Among people born in 1908, Lev Landau ranks 10. Before him are Oskar Schindler, Salvador Allende, Abraham Maslow, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Herbert von Karajan. After him are Otto Skorzeny, Amon Göth, Edward Teller, Willard Van Orman Quine, Olivier Messiaen, and Hannes Alfvén. Among people deceased in 1968, Lev Landau ranks 9. Before him are Helen Keller, Lise Meitner, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, John Steinbeck, and Otto Hahn. After him are Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, Henry Hallett Dale, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, and George Gamow.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Lev Landau ranks 3 out of 232. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141), and Heydar Aliyev (1923). After him are Ilham Aliyev (1961), Richard Sorge (1895), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Garry Kasparov (1963), Arghun (1250), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), and Zecharia Sitchin (1920).

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Among physicists born in Azerbaijan, Lev Landau ranks 1. After him are Artem Alikhanian (1908), and Abraham Alikhanov (1904).

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