Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Chernogolovka, near Moscow, is a research institute in which a wide range of problems in theoretical physics is processed, from elementary particle physics and condensed matter physics through to cosmology. Founded in 1965 by students of Lev Landau - especially the first director Isaac Markovich Chalatnikow, it quickly developed into a center of science worldwide reputation.

Among his most famous scientists, among others include Nobel Laureate Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikossow, the long-standing institute directors Isaac Chalatnikow and Vladimir Sakharov, the mathematical physicist and Wolf Prize winner Sergei Petrovich Novikov and Yakov Sinai, and the physicist Arkady Migdal, Alexander Migdal, Alexander Samolodtschikow, Lev Gorkov, Vladimir Belinski, Grigori Wolowik, Vladimir Minejew ( in the 1990s, Deputy Director and Head of the theory ), Valery Pokrovsky, Konstantin Efetov and Alexander Polyakov.

The scientists worked in the 1970s in relatively loose connection with the Institute and partly at home, since there were only a few rooms at the institute. However, a duty deadline was the Landau Seminar on Friday, has been discussed in the in the tradition of the Landau school without regard to the position of the physicists involved violent. Since everyone could have your say, this took some outsiders chaotic shape, but aim was to clarify physics issues without regard to the hierarchical position of the speakers.

A large number of employees of the Landau Institute have received professorships at prestigious physics institutes, especially in the USA, France, England and also in Germany since the late 1980s calls. Often this scientific contacts were preserved at the home institution.

The training of graduate students at the Landau Institute as well as at the Lebedev Institute and the Kapitsa Institute was financially supported since 1992 by the Forschungszentrum Jülich ( Landau ) scholarships.