Google Celebrates soviet physicist Lev Landau

New Delhi, January 22: Lev Landau, who received the Nobel Prize for his work in the field of superfluidity and a Soviet physicist who made some of the most significant discoveries in physics during the 20th century.

He was born in Azerbaijan on 22 January 1908 and his brilliance at mathematics and science was evident at an early age but struggled in relating to his classmates.

Landau’s name is scattered across the landscape of modern science, with the Landau Levels, Landau diamagnetism, Landau damping, and the Landau energy spectrum, which are all linked to the physicist. A crater of the moon is also named after him.

Lev Landau co-discovered the density matrix method in quantum mechanics, theory of second-order phase transitions, the theory of Fermi liquid, the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity among others.

On Tuesday, Google celebrated Lev Landau s 111th birthday with a Google Doodle dedicated to the scientist.