Lev Landau, an outstanding Soviet-Jewish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize and two Lenin prizes, the highest Soviet award for achievements in science, died in Moscow yesterday at the age of 60. Prof. Landau had been a semi-invalid for the past six years as a result of injuries he received in an automobile accident. He was able to speak and move a little and tutor students in his home. But he never returned to his scientific work. A year ago he received a Jewish journalist from Warsaw, to whom he said that he was not a political man but was born a Jew and would die a Jew.
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