Pyotr Kapitsa
June 26, 1894 –April 8, 1984
Physicist, Inventor, Professor
Lived 89 years
- Born in
- Kronstadt
- Passed away in
- Moscow
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица; Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 27 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984), also known as Peter Kapitza, was a Russian and Soviet physicist, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
Awards: Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "Veteran of Labour", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Faraday Medal, Order of Lenin, Franklin Medal, doctor honoris causa from the University of Alger Education: Trinity College, Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, University of Cambridge
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