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Lev Davydovitch Landau was born on 22 January, 1908, in Baku, a large university town, then the chief petrol-producing centre in Russia. Landau’s father was an engineer, working in the petrol industry; his mother was a medical doctor who also worked on physiological research. Lev’s older sister, Sofia, subsequently became a chemical engineer.
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Kapitza, P.L. (1980). Lev Davydovitch Landau. In: Experiment, Theory, Practice. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8977-1_37
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