The Swedish Royal Academy of Science announced on November 1 that it had named a leading Soviet physicist, Lev Davydovich Landau, to receive the Nobel Prize in physics for 1962. Prof. Landau, a theorist who has made significant contributions in widely separated areas of physics, was cited in particular for having developed “pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium”.

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