Interesting Things with JC #590: "Lev Landau" - He was born in Azerbaijan in 1908. Despite facing adversity due to tuberculosis as a child and a car accident later in life that left him permanently injured, Landau made groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962.

Landau's work in areas such as superconductivity, quantum mechanics, and liquid theory had a lasting impact on our understanding of matter and energy at the most fundamental level.