doctoral_advisor birth_place citizenship image_size ethnicity fields workplaces birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
lev landau saratov soviet union 200px russian theoretical physics moscow trento , israel institute of technology institute of physics and technology , university of 18 january 1933 gross of theoretical physics '' -- pitaevskii equation , superfluidity , '' course soviet union lev pitaevskii
 lev pitaevskii saratov state university
lev pitaevskii

lev petrovich pitaevskii -lrb- -rrb- is a soviet theoretical physicist , who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics , electrodynamics , low-temperature physics , plasma physics , and condensed matter physics .
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 .
