Lev Landau, the renowned physicist from the Soviet-era, is being honored by Google on his 111th birth anniversary through a dedicated Doodle and while Lev Landau is known for his fundamental contributions to several areas of theoretical physics, he co-discovered the density matrix method in quantum mechanics along with another scientist named John von Neumann.
Coming to the Google Doodle, Lev Landau has been honored by a dedicated sketch on Google’s home page and on his 111th birth anniversary here we take a look at some of his major achievements which makes him one of the biggest physicist of the 20th century.
Today's Google Doodle honours physicist Lev Landau on his 111th birth anniversary; facts you should know
Lev Davidovich Landau was born on January 22, 1908, in Baku as the son of an engineer and a physician
At the age of 19, he graduated from the Physical Department of Leningrad University and began his career at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute.
Lev Landau came up with the quantum mechanical theory of diamagnetism, the theory of second-order phase transitions, the theory of superfluidity, the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, the explanation of Landau damping in plasma physics, the theory of Fermi liquid, the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, Landau's equations for S matrix singularities and the two-component theory of neutrinos.
In the year 1946, Lev Landau was elected as the member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. He won the U.S.S.R. State Prize several times, and in 1962 he received the Lenin Science Prize for their Course of Theoretical Physics.
Lev Landau received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution and development of a mathematical theory of superfluidity which talks about the properties of liquid helium II at a temperature below 2.17 K.
