Pyotr Kapitsa
Pyotr Kapitsa | |
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| Пётр Капица | |
 Kapitsa in the 1930s | |
| Born | Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa 9 July 1894 Kronstadt, Russia |
| Died | 8 April 1984 (aged 89) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Education | Petrograd Polytechnical Institute Cambridge University (PhD, 1923) |
| Known for | Superfluidity Kapitza instability Kapitza number Kapitza resistance Kapitza's pendulum Kapitsa–Dirac effect |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Workplaces | Institute for Physical Problems Cambridge University Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow State University |
| Ernest Rutherford | |
Doctoral students | David Shoenberg |
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa FRS (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица; Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 26 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.