Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
From news@seas.ucla.edu Thu Jan 5 02:26:22 1995
From: albert@tornado.seas.ucla.edu (Albert E. Chou)
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UCLA
Subject: Re: A historical question

In article <3ee9m5$6cj@mojo.eng.umd.edu> fcrary@benji.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
>A recent post concerning Landau reminded me of an old story

That's the same story I've always heard. Vlasov would neither have gone mad
nor become famous if not for Landau.

Another story I've heard about Landau is that he had such terrible writer's
block (too much of a perfectionist) that all of his work was written up
students and friends.

Al
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