Landau's Theoretical Minimum, Landau's Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950's

Abstract

I recollect on the organization of the Landau school and describe the early history of the ITEP Theory Department, as well as the history of creation of famous Landau, Abrikosov, and Khalatnikov's papers, and Landau's papers on P-parity violation and CP-conservation. The recollections carry an imprint of the epoch long gone ..."

Comments: Concluding talk at the Workshop ``QCD at the threshold of the fourth decide /Ioffefest", Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 3-5 September, 2001, 15 p., no figures, uses sprocle style. To be publish in: At the frontier of Particle Physics, Handbook of QCD, Boris Ioffe Festschrift, vol.4, edited by M.Shifman, World Scientific