Recollections of Lev Davidovich Landau
DOI: 10.1063/1.881434
The older I get, the more I am afflicted by fits of nostalgia. Even when they recall the best days of my youth, they nonetheless weigh heavy, because it’s impossible to go back. I think the best way to deal with these memories is to convey them to paper. So I’d like to share some of my recollections of a great man, my unforgettable teacher Lev Davidovich Landau, to whom I was close for several decades until his tragic death in 1968. (See also the articles by I. M. Khalatnikov and Vitaly Ginzburg in
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Alexander I. Akhiezer, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine.
