GREAT UNIVERSALIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY
This is the first part of the paper published in Priroda, 2008, Issue 1, p. 15. Translated from Russian by Petr Kravchuk. For the second part, see p. 30.
One of the most prominent physicists of the 20th century, Lev Davidovich Landau, was at the same time a great universalist who made fundamental contributions in diverse areas of physics: quantum mechanics, solid state physics, theory of magnetism, phase transition theory, nuclear and particle physics, quantum electrodynamics (QED), low-temperature physics, fluid dynamics, atomic collision theory, theory of chemical reactions, and other disciplines.