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Evgeny Lifshitz
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Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz
February 21, 1915 Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
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Died | October 29, 1985 |
(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[update], 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