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Lev Landau

Soviet theoretical physicist1908 to 1968

Wikidata names Abram Ioffe as doctoral advisor and lists 23 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata23

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Niels Bohr

Taught11

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    László Tisza

    born 1907
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Aleksandr Akhiezer

    born 1911
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Arkady Migdal

    born 1911
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Isaak Pomeranchuk

    born 1913
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Evgeny Lifshitz

    born 1915
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ilya Lifshitz

    born 1916
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Isaak Khalatnikov

    born 1919
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alexei Abrikosov

    born 1928
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Yury Kagan

    born 1928
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Igor Dzyaloshinsky

    born 1931
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii

    born 1933

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 179 people: 179 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.