Leo Landau
Leo Landau
Friday, 18 January 2008
Rating: 2 grivnas
metall: nickel silver
circulation: 35000
diametr: 31 mm
The weight: 12,8 grams
herd: corrugated
series: Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine
category: ordinary
NBU Price: 22
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 o
On the coin obverse above there is placed the inscription: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (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 a
On the coin reverse there is depicted a portrait of Lev Landau and there are placed the inscriptions: ЛЕВ ЛАНДАУ (Leo Landau) (on the left), 1908 – 1968 (on the right)
artist: Volodymyr Taran, Oleksandr Kharuk, Serhii Kharuk
sculptor: Volodymyr Demianenko