Landau in der PfalzLandau is a town of 47,000 people in the Palatinate. It is a university town, a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate wine region....
Wikipedia lan·dau (lăn′dô′, -dou′) n. 1.A four-wheeled carriage with front and back passenger seats that face each other and a roof in two sections that can be lowered or detached. 2.A style of automobile with a similar roof. ...
Born Jan. 9 (22), 1908, in Baku; died Apr. 1, 1968, in Moscow. Soviet physicist. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946); Hero of Socialist Labor (1954). The son of a petroleum engineer, Landau graduated from Leningrad University in 1927, whereupon he became a gra...
Wikipedia [′lan‚dau̇ ‚dam·piŋ] (plasma physics) Damping of a plasma oscillation wave which occurs in situations where the particles of the plasma are able to increase their average energy at the expense of the wave, and thus to damp it out, even in cases where the dissipative...