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| Established | 1964 |
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| Head | Igor Valentinovich Kolokolov |
| Members | 62 |
| Address | Akademika Semenova av., 1A, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia |
| Location | , |
| Website | http://www.itp.ac.ru/en/ |
TheL. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Russian:Институт теоретической физики имени Л. Д. Ландау (ИТФ)) of theRussian Academy of Sciences is a research institution, located in the small town ofChernogolovka nearMoscow (there is also a subdivision in Moscow, on the territory of theP. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems).
The Landau Institute was formed in 1964 to keep theLandau school alive after the tragic car accident ofLev D. Landau. Since its foundation, the institute grew rapidly to about one hundred scientists, becoming one of the worldwide best-known and leading institutes fortheoretical 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 theirhome institute, forming a scientific network in the tradition of the Landau school and supporting young theoretical physicists in the Landau Institute.
Up to 1992, the institute was headed byIsaak Markovich Khalatnikov, who was then replaced byVladimir E. Zakharov. Its numerous prominent scientists,mathematicians as well asphysicists, include theNobel laureateAlexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov as well asIgor Dzyaloshinsky,Lev Gor'kov,Vladimir Gribov,Arkady Migdal,Alexander 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 theBerezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition theory), Serguei Brazovskii, Konstantin Efetov, David Khmel'nitsky,Vladimir Mineev,Grigory Volovik,Paul Wiegmann, Leonid Levitov, Alexander Finkel'stein,Alexander Zamolodchikov,Vadim Knizhnik,Konstantin Khanin, andYakov G. Sinai.[1]
The main fields of research are:
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