#OTD On January 22 was born a prominent Soviet physicist and founder of the scientific school Lev Landau.

🏆Lev Landau received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical theory of superfluidity that accounts for the properties of liquid helium II at extremely low temperature.

🔬Described by classmates as a “quiet, shy boy,” young Landau was brilliant at math and science. Having completed his studies by age 13, Landau was ready to start college long before his peers. Enrolling in the Physics Department of Leningrad University, his first publication, On the Theory of the Spectra of Diatomic Molecules was already in print when he was just 18 years old.

🔬Completing his Ph.D. at age 21, Landau earned a Rockefeller fellowship and a Soviet stipend which allowed him to visit research facilities in Zurich, Cambridge, and Copenhagen, where he had the opportunity to study with Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. Renowned for his work in quantum theory, Bohr had a profound impact on the young physicist.

🔬Elected to the U.S.S.R.’s Academy of Sciences in 1946, Landau also received the Lenin Science Prize for his monumental Course of Theoretical Physics. His wide-ranging research has linked his name to many concepts that he was first to describe including: Landau Levels, Landau diamagnetism, Landau damping, and the Landau energy spectrum.

🔬His legacy is also kept alive by the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow—and there is even a crater on the moon named after him!

On 22 January 2019, Google Doodle celebrated Lev Landau’s 111th Birthday.

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🤍💙❤Russian schoolchildren received five gold medals at the 53rd International School Physics Olympiad in Tokyo.

In total, schoolchildren from more than 80 countries participated in the competition.

🧑‍🎓Schoolchildren from Russia demonstrated their unique skills in two rounds: solving theoretical problems and performing laboratory work.

Congratulations to our winners! And we wish them new victories! 🏆🏆🏆

📷Photo: Press Service of the Ministry of Education of Russia

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📣Hurry up to become a participant of the international olympiad "Phystech.International" in mathematics and physics.

⏰Applications will be accepted until September 22.
👉https://en.phystech.international/

Organizers: Rossotrudnichestvo and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

✅This year it will be held in one stage. Schoolchildren of general education institutions of the CIS countries, near and far abroad are invited to participate.

✅Prize-winners and winners will receive additional points for admission to MIPT, and foreign participants will be able to apply for the quota of the Russian Government.

❗The Olympiad starts on September 23.

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🥇Russian schoolchildren won 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal at the 54th International Physics Olympiad in Iran!

📚The Russian participants prepared for the competition at a training camp at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The Head of the Russian team is Mikhail Osin, Associate Professor of the General Physics Department at MIPT.

Congratulations to our young physicists! 🎉👏

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