Background
Pitaevskii was born on January 18, 1933, in Saratov.
physicist university professor
Pitaevskii was born on January 18, 1933, in Saratov.
Pitaevskii was born on January 18, 1933, in Saratov.
He graduated from Saratov State University in 1955. In 1958 he joined the staff of the Institute of Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1971 he became a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Together with Evgeny Lifshitz and Vladimir Berestetskii, Lev Pitaevskii has also been the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau–Lifschitz Course of Theoretical Physics series. His academic status is professor Collaborating with Vitaly Ginzburg, Pitaevskii developed a theory of superfluidity in the neighborhood of a transition point.
He showed that, at sufficiently low temperatures, liquid helium-3 should undergo a transition to the superfluid state.
Lev Pitaevskii was educated at the Landau school in Moscow. Another famous paper was written in collaboration with Igor East. Dzyaloshinsky and Evgeny Lifshitz on the van der Waals forces where the theory of the thermal and quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field was developed in a systematic way with important implications on modern applications to solid state physics and atomic physics.
Lev Pitaevskii started collaborating with the University of Trento at the end of the 1980s through a series of long term visits. After a few years spent at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa he eventually became professor of Trento University in 1998.
Since then he is working in the Trento BEC team, a joint initiative of the National Institute of Optics (National Research Council) in Italy and of the Physics Department of the University of Trento where is currently carrying out his scientific activity.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.