Lev Pitaevskii | |
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Лев Питаевский | |
Born | |
Died | 23 August 2022 Rovereto, Italy | (aged 89)
Alma mater | Saratov State University |
Known for | Gross–Pitaevskii equation, Superfluidity, Course of Theoretical Physics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Trento, Israel Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Evgeny Lifshitz |
Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (‹See Tfd›Russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский [ˈlʲef pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈtajɪfskʲɪj]; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022)[1][2] was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics. Together with his PhD supervisor Evgeny Lifshitz and with Vladimir Berestetskii, he was also the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau–Lifschitz Course of Theoretical Physics series. His academic status was professor.