Leopoldo Máximo Falicov (June 24, 1933 – January 24, 1995)[1] was an Argentine theoretical physicist, specializing in the theory of condensed matter physics.
His father, Isaías Félix Falicov, was Argentine and his mother, Dora Samoilovich, emigrated to Argentina as a child.
Simultaneously, he was working on his doctoral thesis at the Bariloche Institute of Physics under the direction of José Antonio Balseiro on the subject "Photon packets: their classification, dispersion and formation" which he defended in August 1958, 3 months after finishing his undergraduate degree.
He continued in 1959 with a scholarship from the British Council at Cambridge University England where he completed a second doctorate under the direction of Professor Volker Heine on the subject "The structure of metal bands", with a defense date of December 8, 1960.
In 1959 he married Marta Puebla whom made his famous Magnesium Fermi Surface in his post doctoral thesis.