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Many generations of aspiring theoretical physicists have been trained by top researchers at the Institute in a highly conducive environments that is completely geared toward learning (Kojevnikov, 2004).
There are specific main fields for scientific research that the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics has been involved with throughout the past forty years (Kojevnikov, 2004). These all-important areas include: Forty-seven of these individuals had permanent positions in various leading centers of science and in universities abroad (Kojevnikov, 2004). It is clear from this that Nobel Physics Prize winner Lev Davidovich Landau not only did much good for the world during his lifetime, but that the work that he did had a ripple effect that continued to spread throughout the world even after he had passed on.
Condensed matter theory
Quantum field theory
Nuclear and elementary particle physics
Computational physics
Nonlinear dynamics
Mathematical physics (Kojevnikov, 2004).
The Landau Institute has survived throughout many Russian crises times - most notably those that took place throughout the 1990s (Kojevnikov, 2004). Some of the best experts left Russia to work at centers for science throughout the world. However, the large majority of them have kept up ties with Landau Institute, which has allowed them to form a world-wide Landau network, always showing pride in the Landau School.
Bibliography
Dorozynski, Alexander (1965). The Man They Wouldn't Let Die. Pergamon Press.
Janouch, Frantisek (1979). Lev D. Landau: His life and work. Imperial College Press.
Lev Davidovich Landau (2003) Nobel Winners. http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/lev_davidovich_landau.html
Khalatnikov, I.M. (editor) (1989). Landau. The physicist and the man. Recollections of L.D. Landau Translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes. Pergamon Press.
Kojevnikov,…
Bibliography
Dorozynski, Alexander (1965). The Man They Wouldn't Let Die. Pergamon Press.
Janouch, Frantisek (1979). Lev D. Landau: His life and work. Imperial College Press.
Lev Davidovich Landau (2003) Nobel Winners. http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/lev_davidovich_landau.html
Khalatnikov, I.M. (editor) (1989). Landau. The physicist and the man. Recollections of L.D. Landau Translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes. Pergamon Press.
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