Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza FRS was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. Wikipedia
Born: July 8, 1894, Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 8, 1984 (age 89 years), Moscow, Russia
Spouse: Anna Kapitsa (m. 1927–1984)
Education: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (1912–1919), Moscow State University, University of Cambridge, and more
Children: Sergey Kapitsa and Andrey Kapitsa
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society (1929), IET Faraday Medal (1942), Franklin Medal (1944), and more
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