L.D. Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau is a famous Soviet physicist. He worked in such fields as low-temperature, atomic, nuclear and plasma physics. Several physical terms bear his name. He was awarded the Noble Prize in 1962 for the development of liquid helium theory.
He was born in 1908. At the age of 13 he finished the Gymnasium. In 1922 he entered the Baku University to study physics and chemistry. Having graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1927, he continued research at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute.
In 1929 he went abroad. For about a year he worked in N. Bohr's Institute in Copenhagen. He always considered himself a pupil of Bohr, his attitude to physics being greatly influenced by Bohr's example.
In 1932 Landau went to Krakow to become the head of the Theoretical Division of the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute. There he began to build a Soviet school of theoretical physics. There he started to write with his friend and former student E.H. Lifshits the well-known Course of Theoretical Physics. At the age of 27 he became a professor of physics. In 1937 Landau moved to Moscow to head the Theory Division of the Vavilov Institute.
In Moscow he made contributions to almost all parts of physics.
On January 7, 1962 Landau was involved in a car accident. He was unconscious for 6 weeks and was several times declared clinically dead, but he somehow revived. He died six years later in 1968.
Besides the Noble Prize, he received many other Russian and foreign honours.
I. Ответьте на следующие вопросы:
1) When was Landau born ?
2) At what age did Landau finish the Gymnasium ?
3) At what Institute did he study ?
4) Did he study abroad ?
5) When did he become a professor ?
6) When and where did he begin to build a Soviet school of theoretical physics ?
7) For what work was he awarded the Noble Prize ?
8) Did Landau make significant contribution to almost all parts of physics ?
9) What book did Landau write with his friend and former student E.H. Lifshits ?
II. Переведите на русский язык :
1) Liquid helium being super fluid, it had less resistance against moving through a tube than any other known liquid.
2) To save Landau's life many distinguished specialists from several countries helped him.
3) While willing to help anybody, he hated pomposity.
4) Having visited Cambridge and Zurich Landau returned home.
5) The development of present-day theoretical physics is known to owe more to Bohr's Institute than to any other place in the world.
6) We know almost all of the leading theoretical physicists of the 1920s-1930s to spend some period at this institute.
7) His grate interest being the teaching of physics, he planned to write a "Course of General Physics" and even a series "Physics for Everybody".
8) Landau reguired all his students to master all necessary mathematical techniques before coming to him.
9) After that he expected them to master the so-called theoretical minimum.
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IV. Переведите на английский следующие предложения :
1) Ландау родился в 1908 году.
2) В 1922 году он поступил в Бакинский университет.
3) В 1927 он закончил Ленинградский Государственный университет.
4) Ландау всегда считал себя учеником Бора.
5) В 1932 году, в Харькове, Ландау начал создавать советскую школу теоретической физики.
6) В возрасте 27 лет он стал профессором.
7) За разработку теории жидкого гелия он получил Нобелевскую премию.
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