Lev Davidovich Landau, the famous Soviet Jewish scientist, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1962, has been awarded the Order of Lenin for “exceptional achievements in the development of Soviet science on his 60th birthday,” it was reported here from Moscow. It was Dr. Landau’s second Lenin Order, the first having been awarded in 1962. Critically injured in an auto accident in 1966 and believed doomed, he was restored to health by strenuous efforts by Soviet specialists.
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