Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Kapitsa
Pyotr Kapitsa
Пётр Леонидович Капица
	Pyotr Kapitsa in 1964
Born	Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa; 8 July 1894; Kronstadt, Russian Empire
Died	8 April 1984 (aged 89); Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Russian, Soviet
Citizenship	Russian Empire (1894–1917) → RSFSR (1917–1922) → Soviet Union (1922–1984)
Known for	Superfluidity; Kapitza's pendulum
Awards	FRS (1929); Faraday Medal (1942); Franklin Medal (1944); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1959); Rutherford Medal and Prize (1966); Nobel Prize in Physics (1978);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Doctoral students	David Shoenberg

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița (8 July [O.S. 26 June] 1894^[1] – 8 April 1984) was a Soviet physicist and engineer.^[2] He was best known for his work in low-temperature physics. He won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Pyotr Kapitsa Media

Kapitsa, standing leftmost with Professor Abram Ioffe (seated fourth from left) in 1915
Kapitsa (left) and Nikolay Semyonov, the physics and chemistry Nobel laureates (portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921).

References

↑ Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa. Encyclopædia Britannica
↑ "Alsos: Browse Results: People: Kapitza, Peter". alsos.wlu.edu. Archived from the original on 28 August 2006. Retrieved 7 April 2018.

[1] Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa. Encyclopædia Britannica

[2] "Alsos: Browse Results: People: Kapitza, Peter". alsos.wlu.edu. Archived from the original on 28 August 2006. Retrieved 7 April 2018.

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