Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii
1933
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2022
country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian
educated at: Saratov State University
occupation: physicist, university teacher, theoretical physicist
award received: Feenberg Medal, Landau Gold Medal, Pomeranchuk Prize, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Lars Onsager Prize, Enrico Fermi Prize
student of: Lev Landau
Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (Russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский [ˈlʲef pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈtajɪfskʲɪj]; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics. Together with his PhD supervisor Evgeny Lifshitz and with Vladimir Berestetskii, he was also the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau–Lifschitz Course of Theoretical Physics series. His academic status was professor. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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