Isaak Khalatnikov

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University teacher at Leiden University (1919-2021)

ScientistsLived 1919 to 2021 · aged 101

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Fame49.1

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Languages20

In century#39,992

Also inDeutsch

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Awards 15

2020Order of Alexander Nevsky

2012Marcel Grossmann Award

1999Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

1994Foreign Member of the Royal Society

1994Order of Friendship of Peoples

1986Order of the October Revolution

1985Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

1979Order of Friendship of Peoples

1975Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1974Landau Gold Medal

1956Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1954Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1953Stalin Prize, 2nd degree

1950Order of the Badge of Honour

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

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Evgeny LifshitzAlso won Landau Gold Medal

Cécile DeWitt-MoretteAlso won Marcel Grossmann Award

Demetrios ChristodoulouAlso won Marcel Grossmann Award Arkady MigdalAlso won Landau Gold Medal

Alexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovAlso won Landau Gold Medal

Roy KerrAlso won Marcel Grossmann Award

About this person

Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov was a leading Soviet theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, including general relativity, quantum field theory, as well as the theory of quantum liquids. He is well known for his role in developing the Landau-Khalatnikov theory of superfluidity and the so-called BKL conjecture in the general theory of relativity.