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The great physicist

On the Centenary of the Birth of Academician L.D. Landau

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Original Russian Text © L.P. Pitaevskii, 2008, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2008, Vol. 78, No. 1, pp. 48–59.

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Pitaevskii, L.P. The great physicist. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 78, 75–85 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331608010097

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