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Also known as Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Peter Kapitza

Soviet physicist

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Pyotr Kapitsa was born on 26 June 1894 and died on 8 April 1984. He received one Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 5.

His works are recognized in several collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1978

    for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Pyotr
Gender
male
Citizenship
Soviet Union
Place of birth
Kronstadt
Place of death
Moscow
Occupation
professor
Languages spoken
Russian
Doctoral advisor
Ernest Rutherford
Student of
Abram Ioffe
Doctoral student
Mark Azbel
Field of work
physics
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Pyotr Kapitsa 1930s.jpg
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place of burial
Novodevichy Cemetery
date of birth
1894-06-26
date of death
1984-04-08
Erdős number
5
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Pyotr Kapitsa
cause of death
stroke
name in native language
Пётр Леони́дович Капи́ца
manner of death
natural causes
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza FRS (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 26 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.

Biography

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