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Evgeny Lifshitz
Born
Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz

(1915-02-21)February 21, 1915
Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died October 29, 1985(1985-10-29) (aged 70)
Known for Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
Landau–Lifshitz model
BKL singularity
Lifschitz point
Course of Theoretical Physics
Awards Lenin Prize
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions University of Kharkiv, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
Doctoral advisor Lev Landau
Doctoral students Lev Pitaevskii

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz ForMemRS (Ukrainian: Євге́н Миха́йлович Лі́фшиць, Russian: Евге́ний Миха́йлович Ли́фшиц; February 21, 1915, Kharkiv – October 29, 1985, Moscow) was a leading Soviet physicist and brother of the physicist Ilya Lifshitz.

Work

Born into a Ukrainian Jewish family in Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine). Lifshitz is well known in the field of general relativity for coauthoring the BKL conjecture concerning the nature of a generic curvature singularity. As of 2006, this is widely regarded as one of the most important open problems in the subject of classical gravitation.

With Lev Landau, Lifshitz co-authored Course of Theoretical Physics, an ambitious series of physics textbooks, in which the two aimed to provide a graduate-level introduction to the entire field of physics. These books are still considered invaluable and continue to be widely used.

Lifshitz was the second of only 43 people ever to pass Landau's "Theoretical Minimum" examination. He made many invaluable contributions, in particular to quantum electrodynamics, where he calculated the Casimir force in an arbitrary macroscopic configuration of metals and dielectrics.

A special multicritical point, the Lifshitz point, carries, since 1975, his name.

See also

  • Landau–Lifshitz model
  • Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
  • Landau–Lifshitz pseudotensor
  • Landau–Lifshitz aeroacoustic equation
  • Belinski–Khalatnikov–Lifshitz singularity
  • Lifshitz theory of van der Waals force
  • Ferromagnetic resonance
  • Premelting
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