14 moments

1. Birth in Baku

   1908-01-22 · Baku, Azerbaijan

   

   Lev Landau was born in Baku, then in the Russian Empire. This is the opening location in his documented life chronology. City coordinate; the source does not give a birth-street address.

2. Matriculation at Baku State University

   1922-01-01 · Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan

   

   At age fourteen, Landau matriculated at Baku State University, simultaneously studying physics and mathematics and chemistry. Coordinate is the present-day main-campus location; the source does not identify the specific 1922 building.

3. Move to Leningrad State University

   1924-01-01 · Leningrad State University, Leningrad, Russian SFSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)

   Landau relocated to Leningrad to study theoretical physics in the Physics Department of Leningrad State University. Coordinate is the university's historic central campus on Vasilievsky Island.

4. Research visit to Cambridge

   1930-01-01 · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

   During his European fellowship travel, Landau visited Cambridge and worked with Paul Dirac. The source supports only mid-1930 and does not identify a specific Cambridge building; coordinate is a city representative point.

5. First Copenhagen stay at Niels Bohr's institute

   1930-04-08 · Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

   Landau began a formative stay at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics, a visit that strongly influenced his later approach to physics.

6. Second Copenhagen research stay

   1930-09-01 · Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

   Landau returned to Copenhagen during the same fellowship period for a second stay associated with Niels Bohr's theoretical-physics milieu. The source supports month-level timing only.

7. Work with Wolfgang Pauli in Zürich

   1930-12-01 · Zürich, Switzerland

   Landau was in Zürich during the winter of 1930–1931, where he worked with Wolfgang Pauli. The source identifies Zürich but not a particular building; coordinate is a city representative point.

8. Return to Leningrad

   1931-01-01 · Leningrad, Russian SFSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)

   After his third Copenhagen stay, Landau returned to Leningrad, ending this documented phase of his 1929–1931 foreign travel. The source supports the year, but not a more precise return date; coordinate is a city representative point.

9. Third Copenhagen stay

   1931-02-25 · Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

   Landau made a third Copenhagen visit before returning to the Soviet Union later that year.

10. Theoretical-physics leadership in Kharkiv

    1932-01-01 · Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine)

    

    Landau began leading the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute and lecturing at Kharkiv institutions. This period became the foundation of the Kharkiv theoretical-physics school associated with him. The source identifies several Kharkiv institutions rather than one single site; coordinate is a city representative point.

11. Head of theoretical division in Moscow

    1937-01-01 · Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, Russia

    

    Landau began his long tenure as head of the Theoretical Division at the Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow. Coordinate represents the Institute for Physical Problems site at 2 Kosygina Street; the quoted biography does not specify a street address.

12. Imprisonment at Lubyanka

    1938-04-27 · Lubyanka Building, Moscow, Russia

    

    Landau was arrested amid the Great Purge and was imprisoned in the NKVD's Lubyanka prison until his release in April 1939. The quoted sentence establishes confinement through 29 April 1939; the article states immediately before it that his arrest occurred on 27 April 1938.

13. Nobel Prize presentation in a Moscow hospital

    1962-12-01 · Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)

    After injuries from his January 1962 car accident prevented travel to Stockholm, Landau received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics while hospitalized in Moscow. Contemporary report published 12 December 1962; the hospital is not named, so the coordinate is a city representative point.

14. Death in Moscow

    1968-04-01 · Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)

    

    Landau died in Moscow from complications of injuries sustained in the 1962 car accident. The source does not identify the medical facility; coordinate is a city representative point.