Pyotr Kapitsa

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

(1894-07-09)9 July 1894
Died8 April 1984(1984-04-08) (aged 89)
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
CitizenshipUSSR
Known forSuperfluidity
Kapitza instability
Kapitza number
Kapitza resistance
Kapitza's pendulum
Kapitsa–Dirac effect
Awards
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.

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  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.