Was Landau's work always accepted by peers?
Not always immediately. Some of my ideas, particularly those that broke sharply from established paradigms, required time and further experimental verification to gain widespread acceptance. For instance, the concept of quasiparticles in Fermi liquids was a radical departure from earlier many-body theories. While the mathematical formalism was solid and its predictions were often borne out, grasping the intuitive meaning and the fundamental implications took time for the physics community to fully absorb and appreciate.
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