List of things named after Lev Landau

Lev Landau (1908 – 1968), Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, is the eponym of the topics in physics listed below.

Physics

• Landau damping
• Landau distribution
• Landau gauge
• Landau pole
• Landau potential
• Landau quantization
• Landau diamagnetism/Landau susceptibility
• Landau theory
• Landau-Squire jet
• Stuart-Landau equation
• Landau-Levich problem
• Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence
• Ginzburg–Landau theory
• Landau–Lifshitz aeroacoustic equation
• Landau-Raychaudhuri equation
• Landau–Zener formula
• Landau–Lifshitz model
• Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor
• Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
• Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect

Astronomy

Two celestial objects are named in his honour:

• the minor planet 2142 Landau.
• the lunar crater Landau.

Other

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