Lev landau

Field	Information
Full Name	Lev Davidovich Landau
Date of Birth	22 January 1908
Place of Birth	Baku, Russian Empire
Date of Death	01 April 1968
Place of Death	Moscow, Soviet Union
Citizenship / Country of Residence	Soviet Union
Education	Leningrad State University
Profession	Theoretical Physicist
Years of Activity	1927-1962
Brief Information	Lev Landau was a Soviet theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. His work included superconductivity, superfluidity, quantum electrodynamics, and nuclear physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for his pioneering theories of condensed matter, especially liquid helium.