Person:Pyotr Kapitza (1)

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  • HPyotr Leonidovich Kapitza1894 - 1984
  • W.  Anna Krylova (add)
m. 1927
  1. Sergei Petrovich Kapitza1928 - 2012
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Name[2] Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitza
Alt Name[1] Pyotr Kapitsa
Alt Name[1] Пётр Леони́дович Капи́ца
Gender Male
Birth[1] 8 Jul 1894 Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Marriage 1927 to Anna Krylova (add)
Other[1][2] 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics
Namesake[3] 1982 asteroid 3437 Kapitsa named for this person
Death[1] 8 Apr 1984 Gorod Moskva, Moscow, Russia
Reference Number? Q172844?


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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița ( – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist, engineer and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Pyotr Kapitsa, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    21 Aug 2012.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Scientific American. (New York, New York, United States: Nature America (Nature Publishing Group))
    v.307 n.4 pg.19, Oct 2012.

    Obituary on Sergei Petrovich Kapitza

  3. 3437 Kapitsa, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    21 Jan 2012.