Lev Landau

Lev Davidovich Landau
Born	(1908-01-22)January 22, 1908 Baku, Russian Empire
Died	April 1, 1968(1968-04-01) (aged 60) Moskva, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Known for	Superfluidity, Superconductivity
Scientific career
Doctoral students	Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov

Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Давидович Ландау) (22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968), was a famous Soviet physicist for contributing to theoretical physics.

He was elected as a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1946. He was a Foreign Member of Royal Society of London (1960), National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1960), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1951), Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (1956), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1960) and German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1964), French Physical Society and the London Physical Society.

He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Superfluidity. He also got titles or awards: Hero of Socialist Labor (1954). Max Planck Medal (Germany, 1960), Fritz London Prize (1960), USSR State Prize: Lenin Prize (1962) and Stalin Prizes (1946, 1949, 1953).