Lev Pitaevskii
Lev Pitaevskii | |
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Лев Питаевский | |
| Born | 18 January 1933 |
| Died | 23 August 2022 (aged 89) Rovereto, Italy |
| Alma mater | Saratov State University |
| Known for | Gross–Pitaevskii equation, Superfluidity, Course of Theoretical Physics, van der Waals interactions, Casimir Effect |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Trento, Israel Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Lev Landau |
| Doctoral students | Mauro Antezza |
Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (Russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский [ˈlʲef pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈtajɪfskʲɪj]; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) 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.