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Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii

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Russian theoretical physicist at University of Trento (1933-2022)

ScientistsLived 1933 to 2022 · aged 89
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Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics.

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2021Lars Onsager Prize
2018Pomeranchuk Prize
2018Enrico Fermi Prize
2012honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II
2008Landau Gold Medal
1997Feenberg Medal
Order of Friendship of Peoples

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Walter KohnAlso won Feenberg MedalMichael FisherAlso won Lars Onsager PrizeJames BjorkenAlso won Pomeranchuk PrizeMichele ParrinelloAlso won Enrico Fermi PrizeArkady MigdalAlso won Landau Gold MedalJohn M. BallAlso won honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II

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Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii 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-Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics series. His academic status was professor.

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deceased
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Lived 1933 to 2022 · aged 89
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