HISTORY OF PHYSICS
The scientific heritage of Lev D. Landau is so great and varied that it is even difficult to imagine how one person could have managed to do it in just 40 years.
1. Landau developed the theory of the diamagnetism of free electrons:
Landau diamagnetism (1930)
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2. Independently from Zener, Stueckelberg, and Majorana, in 1932 Landau developed the Landau–Zener formula. The formula, gives the probability of a non-adiabatic) transition between the two energy state.
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3. Landau introduced the notion of antiferromagnetism as a special phase of a magnet (1936)
4. He also introduced the equation for the plasma in the case of the Coulomb interaction and established the form of the collision integral for charged particles (1936)
5. He also created the theory of phase transitions of the second kind (1935-1937)
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and the excitation energy.
7. In the same year, Landau (along with Hans Bethe and Victor Weisskopf) was one of the creators of the statistical theory of the nucleus.
8. Together with Vitaly L. Ginzburg, constructed the phenomenological theory of superconductivity (1950)
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9. In 1956, Lev Landau developed the theory of the Fermi liquid.
10. Simultaneously with Abdus Salam, T.D. Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, and independently, Dau proposed parity non conservation and advanced a theory of a two-component neutrino (1957)
11. Of course, he is the author of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics, with Lifshitz.
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@VergaraLautaro AFAIK, in the Course they introduced thermal fluctiations in mesoscopic hydrodynamics. Their description is nowadays the standard.
