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Lev Landau was a Physicist. And I really liked his book on Quantum Mechanics.

Landau's books[0] are very famous among advanced undergrads and grad students of Physics in India.

Landau also measured the genius of his contemporaries[1]. He gave himself a 1.5, and 1 to Schrodinger, Satyen Bose, etc. Eisnstein was 0.5. (Lower the better)

He also won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics

[1]: https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/landau-genius-scale-...



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