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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Landau has received more than 1,728,827 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Lev Landau is the 69th most popular physicist (down from 64th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Azerbaijan 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

Among physicists, Lev Landau ranks 69 out of 851. Before him are Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, J. Hans D. Jensen, Eugene Wigner, Johannes Stark, Rudolf Clausius, and Otto von Guericke. After him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Carl David Anderson, Georges Lemaître, James Chadwick, Lawrence Bragg, and Ernest Lawrence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Lev Landau ranks 13. Before him are Abraham Maslow, Edward Teller, Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Otto Skorzeny. After him are Olivier Messiaen, John Bardeen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Geli Raubal, Simon Wiesenthal, and Ian Fleming. Among people deceased in 1968, Lev Landau ranks 9. Before him are Marcel Duchamp, Martin Luther King Jr., Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Padre Pio, and John Steinbeck. After him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, Trygve Lie, Max Brod, George Gamow, and Karl Barth.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Lev Landau ranks 4 out of 232. Before him are Heydar Aliyev (1923), Nizami Ganjavi (1141), and Ilham Aliyev (1961). After him are Richard Sorge (1895), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Arghun (1250), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), and Zecharia Sitchin (1920).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Azerbaijan

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

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