Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Established
| 1964
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Head
| Igor Valentinovich Kolokolov
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Members
| 62
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Address
| Akademika Semenova av., 1A, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia
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Location
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Website
| http://www.itp.ac.ru/en/
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The
L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
(Russian:
Институт теоретической физики имени Л. Д. Ландау (ИТФ)
) of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
is a research institution, located in the small town of
Chernogolovka
near
Moscow
(there is also a subdivision in Moscow, on the territory of the
P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems
).
History
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The Landau Institute was formed in 1964 to keep the
Landau school
alive after the tragic car accident of
Lev D. Landau
. Since its foundation, the institute grew rapidly to about one hundred scientists, becoming one of the worldwide best-known and leading institutes for
theoretical physics
.
Unlike many other scientific centers in Russia, the Landau Institute had the strength to cope with the crisis of the nineties in the last century. Although about one half of the scientists accepted positions at leading scientific centers and universities abroad, most of them kept ties with their
home institute
, forming a scientific network in the tradition of the Landau school and supporting young theoretical physicists in the Landau Institute.
Prominent members
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Up to 1992, the institute was headed by
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
, who was then replaced by
Vladimir E. Zakharov
. Its numerous prominent scientists,
mathematicians
as well as
physicists
, include the
Nobel laureate
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
as well as
Igor Dzyaloshinsky
,
Lev Gor'kov
,
Vladimir Gribov
,
Arkady Migdal
,
Anatoly Larkin
,
Sergei Novikov
,
Alexander Polyakov
,
Mark Azbel
,
Valery Pokrovsky
,
Emmanuel Rashba
, Sergey Iordanskii, Ioshua Levinson,
Alexei Starobinsky
,
Alexei Kitaev
,
Vadim Berezinskii
(whose early death prevented him from sharing the Nobel Prize for the
Berezinskii?Kosterlitz?Thouless transition
theory), Serguei Brazovskii, Konstantin Efetov, David Khmel'nitsky,
Vladimir Mineev
,
Grigory Volovik
,
Paul Wiegmann
, Leonid Levitov,
Alexander Zamolodchikov
,
Vadim Knizhnik
,
Konstantin Khanin
, and
Yakov G. Sinai
.
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Fields of Research
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The main fields of research are:
See also
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References
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External links
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Further reading
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