Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Lev Landau across 7 places, from 1908 to 1965.
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Lev Davidovich Landau (22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Lev Landau was documented, and when
22 January 1908exact date
Bakuattested“Landau was born on 22 January 1908 to Jewish parents in Baku, the Russian Empire, in what is now Azerbaijan.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
8 April 1930exact date
Göttingenattested“After brief stays in Göttingen and Leipzig, he went to Copenhagen on 8 April 1930 to work at the Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
8 April 1930exact date
Copenhagenattested“After brief stays in Göttingen and Leipzig, he went to Copenhagen on 8 April 1930 to work at the Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
8 April 1930exact date
Niels Bohr Instituteattested“After brief stays in Göttingen and Leipzig, he went to Copenhagen on 8 April 1930 to work at the Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
1934year
Ioffe Physico-Technical Instituteattested“Landau subsequently enrolled for post-graduate studies at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute where he eventually received a doctorate in Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 1934.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
1934year
Leningradattested“Landau subsequently enrolled for post-graduate studies at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute where he eventually received a doctorate in Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 1934.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
1965year
Moscowattested“In 1965 former students and co-workers of Landau founded the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, located in the town of Chernogolovka near Moscow, and led for the following three decades by Isaak Khalatnikov.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
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1922year
Bakumentioned“In 1922, at age 14, he matriculated at the Baku State University, studying in two departments simultaneously: the Departments of Physics and Mathematics, and the Department of Chemistry.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
1922year
Baku State Universitymentioned“In 1922, at age 14, he matriculated at the Baku State University, studying in two departments simultaneously: the Departments of Physics and Mathematics, and the Department of Chemistry.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
November 1930month
Cambridgementioned“After his stay in Copenhagen, he visited Cambridge (mid-1930), where he worked with Paul Dirac, Copenhagen (September to November 1930), and Zürich (December 1930 to January 1931), where he worked with Wolfgang Pauli.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
19 March 1931exact date
Copenhagenmentioned“From Zürich Landau went back to Copenhagen for the third time and stayed there from 25 February until 19 March 1931 before returning to Leningrad the same year.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
19 March 1931exact date
Zürichmentioned“From Zürich Landau went back to Copenhagen for the third time and stayed there from 25 February until 19 March 1931 before returning to Leningrad the same year.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
19 March 1931exact date
Leningradmentioned“From Zürich Landau went back to Copenhagen for the third time and stayed there from 25 February until 19 March 1931 before returning to Leningrad the same year.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
1932 to 1937period
Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technologymentioned“Between 1932 and 1937, Landau headed the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute (UPTI) in Kharkov, and he lectured at the University of Kharkov and the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
1932 to 1937period
Kharkovmentioned“Between 1932 and 1937, Landau headed the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute (UPTI) in Kharkov, and he lectured at the University of Kharkov and the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
29 April 1939exact date
NKVDmentioned“He was held in the NKVD's Lubyanka prison until his release, on 29 April 1939, after Pyotr Kapitsa (an experimental low-temperature physicist and the founder and head of the institute) and Bohr wrote letters to Joseph Stalin.”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
7 January 1962exact date
Sovietmentioned“In 1935 he published a piece titled “Bourgeoisie and Contemporary Physics” in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia in which he criticized religious superstition and the dominance of capital, which he saw as bourgeois tendencies, citing “unprece…”source: Wikipedia: Lev Landau
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