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Pyotr Kapitsa
Пётр Капица
Kapitsa in the 1930s
Born
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

(1894-07-09)9 July 1894
Kronstadt, Russian Empire
Died8 April 1984(1984-04-08) (aged 89)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
CitizenshipUSSR
Known forSuperfluidity
Kapitza instability
Kapitza number
Kapitza resistance
Kapitza's pendulum
Kapitsa–Dirac effect
Awards
  • FRS (1929)[1]
  • Faraday Medal (1942)
  • Franklin Medal (1944)
  • Lomonosov Gold Medal (1959)
  • Cothenius Medal (1959)
  • Rutherford Medal and Prize (1966)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsMoscow State University
Doctoral advisorAbram Ioffe
Doctoral studentsDavid Shoenberg

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza FRS (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 26 June] 1894[2] – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate,[3][4] whose research focused on low-temperature physics.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa. Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. ^ Pyotr Kapitsa on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ "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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