Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
The Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics ( Russian Институт теоретической физики имени Л. Д. Ландау (ИТФ) ) in Chernogolovka in Moscow is a research institute in which a wide range of problems of theoretical physics is processed by the physics of about physics condensed matter to cosmology . Founded in 1965 by students of Lew Landau - especially the first director Isaak Markowitsch Chalatnikow - it quickly developed into a science center with a worldwide reputation.
His most famous scientists include u. a. the Nobel Prize winner Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov , the longtime institute directors Isaac Chalatnikow and Vladimir Sakharov , the mathematical physicist and Wolf Prize winner Sergei Petrovich Novikov and Yakov Sinai and the physicist Arkady Migdal , Alexander Migdal , Alexander Samolodtschikow , Lew Gorkow , Vladimir Belinsky , Grigori Wolowik , Vadim Lvovich Berezinsky , Vladimir Mineev (Vice Director and Head of Theory in the 1990s), Valeri Pokrovsky , Konstantin Efetov , Alexei Borisovich Shabat , Konstantin Khanin and Alexander Polyakov .
In the 1970s, the scientists worked relatively loosely with the institute and sometimes at home, as there were only a few rooms at the institute. The Landau seminar on Friday was a must, however, in which, in the tradition of the Landau school, there was heated discussion regardless of the position of the physicists involved. Since everyone was able to speak up, this sometimes took on chaotic features for outsiders, but the aim was to clarify physical questions regardless of the hierarchical position of the discussants.
Since the late 1980s, a large number of employees at the Landau Institute have received professorships at renowned physics institutes, primarily in the USA, France, England and Germany. Scientific contacts with the home institute were often maintained.
The training of doctoral students at the Landau Institute as well as the Lebedew Institute and the Kapiza Institute has been financially supported by Forschungszentrum Jülich since 1992 ( Landau scholarships ).
literature
- Isaak Chalatnikow, Wladimir Minejew (Ed.): 30 years of the Landau Institute: Selected Papers. World Scientific 1996.
Web links
- Institute website in Russian
- http://www.itp.ac.ru/en/ English