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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza FRS (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 26 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.
Biographical. Pjotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was born in Kronstadt, near Leningrad, on the 9th July 1894, son of Leonid Petrovich Kapitsa, military engineer, and Olga Ieronimovna née Stebnitskaia, working in high education and folklore research. Kapitsa began his scientific career in A.F. Ioffe’s section of the Electromechanics Department of the ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (born June 26 [July 8, New Style], 1894, Kronshtadt, Russian Empire—died April 8, 1984, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Soviet physicist who invented new machines for the liquefaction of gases and in 1937 discovered the superfluidity of liquid helium.
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 . Born: 9 July 1894, Kronshtadt, Russian Empire (now Russia) Died: 8 April 1984, Moscow, USSR (now Russia) Affiliation at the time of the award: Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Pyotr Kapitsa’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1978. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I think I am not mistaken in believing that I am the oldest person who ever received the Nobel Prize.
Pyotr Kapitsa. Nobel Prize for Physics 1978 "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics". From Petrograd to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was born in 1894 in Kronstadt, an island off the coast of St. Petersburg, into a family with strong intellectual traditions.
Kapitza stands out as one of the greatest experimenters of our time, in his domain the uncontested pioneer, leader and master. We now move from the Institute of Physical Problems, Moscow, to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA.
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
Apr 11, 1984 · Pyotr L. Kapitsa, a Nobel Prize-winning Soviet physicist and an outspoken advocate of free scientific thought, died Sunday in Moscow, according to dispatches from the Soviet Union. He was...
Pyotr Kapitsa was awarded Nobel Prize 1978 in Physics "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics."
