Statistical Physics, Part 2

Evgeny Lifshitz

1915–1985 · Soviet physicist

• Worked at Kapitza Institute

Profession

Physicist

Worked at

Kapitza Institute, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology

Studied at

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute

Studied under

Lev Landau

Prizes

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1982), Mikhail Lomonosov Award (1958), Landau Gold Medal (1974)

Wrote the Course down with Landau, who rarely wrote anything himself.

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Lev Pitaevskii

1933–2022 · Russian theoretical physicist at University of Trento

• Worked at Kapitza Institute

Profession

Physicist

Worked at

Kapitza Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, University of Trento

Studied at

Saratov State University

Studied under

Lev Landau

Prizes

Feenberg Medal (1997), Landau Gold Medal (2008), Enrico Fermi Prize (2018), Pomeranchuk Prize (2018), Lars Onsager Prize (2021)

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