Lev Davidovich Landau

center of Russia - Baku.

twelve years already knows how to integrate and differentiate, and in the age of thirteen brilliantly graduated from high school. According to parents, the boy is too young for university, but because they send it to the Commercial College, where he spent one year studying economics.

on two faculties - chemical and physical mathematics. In 1927 Lev Landau finishes his studies on the physical separation of LSU. A year before graduation, he was appointed supernumerary post-graduate students. He is only nineteen years old, but his account for four of the published scientific works, including the article "On the theory of spectra of diatomic molecules." In another article dedicated to braking problem in wave mechanics, a young theoretical description of the first to introduce the density matrix systems.

time in the famous Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute. In 1932, he separated from the Physical-Technical Institute Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, and Landau moved to the capital of Ukraine. Within five years, Landau headed the theoretical division of the newly created Institute and at the same time is teaching at several universities.

very difficult. Among the seminarians and was Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz, who became the closest associate of Landau, co-author of many of his works and personal friend.

charges of spying for Nazi Germany and imprisoned. Conclusion lasts the whole year. Kapitsa, who had great authority, went to the Kremlin and declared that if Landau is not released, he, Kapitsa, leave the institute. Landau free under "personal guarantee" of Kapitza. Great physics renew collaboration.

in Physics "for his fundamental theory of condensed matter, especially liquid helium".