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{{Infobox institute
| name = Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
| image = Landau_Institute_for_Theoretical_Physics.jpg
| established = 1964
| head = Igor Valentinovich Kolokolov
| num_members = 62
| address = Akademika Semenova av., 1A, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia
| city = Chernogolovka
| country = {{wipe|Russia}}
| website = http://www.itp.ac.ru/en/
}}

The '''L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Институт теоретической физики имени Л. Д. Ландау (ИТФ)}}) of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a research institution, located in the small town of Chernogolovka near [[Place:Moscow|Moscow]] (there is also a subdivision in Moscow, on the territory of the [[Organization:Institute for Physical Problems|P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems]]). 
==History==

The Landau Institute was formed in 1964 to keep the ''Landau school'' alive after the tragic car accident of [[Biography:Lev Landau|Lev D. Landau]]. Since its foundation, the institute grew rapidly to about one hundred scientists, becoming one of the worldwide best-known and leading institutes for [[Physics:Theoretical physics|theoretical physics]].

Unlike many other scientific centers in Russia, the Landau Institute had the strength to cope with the crisis of the nineties in the last century. Although about one half of the scientists accepted positions at leading scientific centers and universities abroad, most of them kept ties with their ''home institute'', forming a scientific network in the tradition of the Landau school and supporting young theoretical physicists in the Landau Institute.

==Prominent members==

Up to 1992, the institute was headed by [[Biography:Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov|Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov]], who was then replaced by [[Biography:Vladimir E. Zakharov|Vladimir E. Zakharov]]. Its numerous prominent scientists, [[Biography:Mathematician|mathematician]]s as well as physicists, include the Nobel laureate [[Biography:Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov|Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov]] as well as Igor Dzyaloshinsky, [[Biography:Lev Gor'kov|Lev Gor'kov]], [[Biography:Vladimir Gribov|Vladimir Gribov]], [[Biography:Arkady Migdal|Arkady Migdal]], [[Biography:Anatoly Larkin|Anatoly Larkin]], [[Biography:Sergei Novikov (mathematician)|Sergei Novikov]], [[Biography:Alexander Markovich Polyakov|Alexander Polyakov]], [[Biography:Mark Azbel|Mark Azbel]], [[Biography:Valery Pokrovsky|Valery Pokrovsky]], [[Biography:Emmanuel Rashba|Emmanuel Rashba]], Sergey Iordanskii, Ioshua Levinson, [[Biography:Alexei Starobinsky|Alexei Starobinsky]], [[Biography:Alexei Kitaev|Alexei Kitaev]], [[Biography:Vadim Berezinskii|Vadim Berezinskii]] (whose early death prevented him from sharing the Nobel Prize for the [[Physics:Kosterlitz–Thouless transition|Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition]] theory), Sergey Brazovsky, Konstantin Efetov, David Khmel'nitsky, [[Biography:Vladimir Petrovich Mineev|Vladimir Mineev]], [[Biography:Grigory E. Volovik|Grigory Volovik]], [[Biography:Paul Wiegmann|Paul Wiegmann]], Leonid Levitov, [[Biography:Alexander Zamolodchikov|Alexander Zamolodchikov]], [[Biography:Vadim Knizhnik|Vadim Knizhnik]], [[Biography:Konstantin Khanin|Konstantin Khanin]], and Yakov G. Sinai.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Raussen|first1=Martin|last2=Skau|first2=Christian|title=Interview with Yakov Sinai – Abel Laureate 2014|journal=EMS Newsletter|date=September 2014|issue=93|page=17|url=https://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2014-09-93.pdf|accessdate=19 July 2017}}</ref>

==Fields of Research==
The main fields of research are:

* [[Physics:Mathematical physics|Mathematical physics]]
* [[Physics:Computational physics|Computational physics]] 
* Nonlinear dynamics 
* Condensed matter theory
* [[Physics:Nuclear physics|Nuclear]] and [[Physics:Particle physics|elementary particle physics]] 
* [[Physics:Quantum field theory|Quantum field theory]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://itp.ac.ru/en/about/history/ Institute's web site (English version)]
*[http://iopscience.iop.org/1063-7869/51/12/A05/pdf/1063-7869_51_12_A05.pdf Talk by Vinay Ambegaokar on the history of the Landau school]

==Further reading==
*[[Biography:Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov|Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov]] and Vladimir P. Mineev (eds.), 30 years of the Landau Institute- selected papers (World Scientific, 1996)

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