UKRAINE 2 UAH LEO LANDAU, PHYSICIST-THEORIST, THE NOBEL IN SOUTH AFRICA

Ukraine 2 UAH Leo Landau, physicist-theorist, the Nobel Prize laureat, 2008 Coin Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country:   Ukraine Metal Purity:    Nickel Silver Box:   No Year of Issue:   2008 Weight:   12.8 CoA:   No Face Value:   2 hryvnias Dimensions:   31     Quality:   special uncirculated     Mintage:   35000   New coin with capsule The coin is dedicated to Leo D.Landau (1908 ¿ 1968), an outstanding physicist-theorist, the Nobel Prize laureate (1962), who made significant contribution to almost all fields of theoretical physics. He was the author of the classic work on diamagnetism of free electrons, theory of liquid helium superfluidity and many others. In the city of Kharkiv Leo D.Landau lead a theoretical department of the Ukrainian institute for Physics and Engineering, at the same time he headed chairs of theoretical physics in the Kharkiv Institute for Engineering and Mechanics and in the Kharkiv university, having established an advanced school of the Soviet theoretical physics. On the coin obverse above there is placed the inscription: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (National Bank of Ukraine), in the middle of which there is the small National Emblem of Ukraine, a conventionalized composition: the distribution function of electrons and ions in the anisometric plasma against the background of the sun. ____________________________________________________  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.