| Lev Landau  AKA Lev Davidovich Landau
Born: 22-Jan-1908
Birthplace: Baku, Azerbaijan
Died: 1-Apr-1968
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Superfluidity of helium Father: (engineer)
Mother: (physiologist)
Wife: K. T. Drobanzeva (m. 1937, one son)
Son: Igor (physicist)
University: Baku Economical Technical School
University: Baku University (1922-)
University: University of Leningrad (1927)
Professor: Physics, Kharkov A.M. Gorky State University
Professor: Physics, Moscow State University
Nobel Prize for Physics 1962
Max Planck Medal 1960
Royal Society
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary
Coma 7-Jan-1962 (auto accident, six weeks in coma)
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