| LC control no. | n 83063094 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pitaevskiĭ, L. P. (Lev Petrovich) |
| Variant(s) | Pitaevskiĭ, Lev Petrovich Pitaevski, L. P. (Lev Petrovich), 1933- Pitajewski, L. P. (Lev Petrovich), 1933- Pitaevskiĭ, Lev (Lev Petrovich), 1933- Pitaevskiĭ, Lev Petrovich, 1933- Pitaevskiĭ, Lev P., 1933- Pitaevskiĭ, L. P. (Lev Petrovich), 1933- |
| Associated country | Russia (Federation) Italy |
| Associated place | Moscow (Russia) Trento (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1933-01-18 |
| Place of birth | Saratov (Russia) |
| Field of activity | Physics |
| Affiliation | Saratovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet im. N.G. Chernyshevskogo Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk Moskovskiĭ fiziko-tekhnicheskiĭ institut Università degli studi di Trento |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists College teachers University and college faculty members |
| Found in | Landau, L. D. Ėlektrodinamika sploshnykh sred, 1982: t.p. (L. P. Pitaevskim) Lifshit︠s︡, E. M. Perspectives in theoretical physics, c1991: CIP t.p. (L.P. Pitaevski) Sov. ėnt︠s︡ikl. slov., 4th ed., corr. & augm.: p. 1018 (Pitaevskiĭ Lev Petr.; b. 1933; physicist; chl.-kor. AN SSSR (1976)) Wikipedia, viewed may 11, 2022: Lev Pitaevskii (Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (Russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский; born January 18, 1933) is 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 Evgeny Lifshitz and Vladimir Berestetskii, Lev Pitaevskii has also been the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau-Lifschitz Course of Theoretical Physics series. His academic status is professor. Pitaevskii was born on January 18, 1933, in Saratov. He graduated from Saratov State University in 1955. In 1958 he joined the staff of the Institute of Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1971 he became a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Lev Pitaevskii was educated at the Landau school in Moscow. He was a PhD student of Lev Landau and during the first years of his scientific activity at the Institute for Physical Problems (now Kapitza Institute), he made contributions to the theory of condensed matter physics, including the most celebrated paper on quantized vortices where he developed what is now called the Gross-Pitaevskii theory of Bose-Einstein condensates, one of the theories more systematically used to describe the physics of ultracold atomic gases nowadays. Another famous paper was written in collaboration with Igor E. Dzyaloshinsky and Evgeny Lifshitz on the van der Waals forces where the theory of the thermal and quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field was developed in a systematic way with important implications on modern applications to solid state physics and atomic physics. Lev Pitaevskii started collaborating with the University of Trento at the end of the 1980s through a series of long term visits. After a few years spent at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa he eventually became professor of Trento University in 1998. Since then he is working in the Trento BEC team, a joint initiative of the Italian National Institute of Optics (part of CNR) in Italy and of the Physics Department of the University of Trento where is currently carrying out his scientific activity.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Pitaevskii> |
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