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...
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laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa. Kapitsa was born in Cambridge, England...
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Kapitsa may refer to: Andrey Kapitsa (1931–2011), Soviet geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Soviet...
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institute was founded in 1934. The founder of the institute, Nobel laurate Pyotr Kapitsa served as its head for many years. The head of the theoretical division...
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awarded Augustinavičiūtė a diploma and the Pyotr Kapitsa medal in 1995 (not to be confused with the Kapitsa Gold Medal awarded by the Russian Academy of...
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hydro–aerodynamics. The university's alumni include Nobel Prize winners, such as Pyotr Kapitsa and Zhores Alferov, physicists and atomic weapon designers such as Yulii...
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research centers. Ioffe's students include Aleksandr Aleksandrov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Pyotr Lukirsky, Isaak Kikoin, Igor Kurchatov, Yakov Frenkel, Nikolay Semyonov...
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Prize-winning physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his maternal grandfather was mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov. Pyotr Kapitsa's sons Sergey and Andrey...
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World Universities ranked it #501 in the world. As Phystech's founder, Pyotr Kapitsa, designed the institute inspired by and in accordance with the Massachusetts...
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1894) April 7 – Frank Church, American politician (b. 1924) April 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894) April 9 – Willem...
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footballer Pyotr Kakhovsky (1799–1826), Russian Empire officer Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Soviet physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate Pyotr Kapnist (1839–1904)...
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substances in a quantum solvent. Superfluidity was discovered in helium-4 by Pyotr Kapitsa and independently by John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937. Onnes possibly...
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working for the German firm of Linde AG. In 1939, the Russian physicist Pyotr Kapitsa perfected the design of centrifugal turboexpanders. His first practical...
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April 22, 2001) was a Canadian physicist. At the same time as Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa in Moscow, Don Misener and Allen independently discovered the...
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electroplating, electrotyping, galvanoplastic sculpture and electric boat Pyotr Kapitsa, originated the techniques for creating ultrastrong magnetic fields...
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Vicente Aleixandre Amnesty International Bertil Ohlin; James Meade 1978 Pyotr Kapitsa; Arno Allan Penzias; Robert Woodrow Wilson Peter D. Mitchell Werner...
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diffraction of electrons from a standing wave of light by Paul Dirac and Pyotr Kapitsa (or Peter Kapitza) in 1933. The effect relies on the wave–particle duality...
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pressure) to the electrons preventing them from falling into the core. Pyotr Kapitsa proposed that ball lightning is a glow discharge driven by microwave...
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and Marc Chagall; the scientists Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Semyonov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Yakov Frenkel, Zhores Alferov, Leonid Kantorovich, Mikhail Lomonosov...
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Head of State of the Soviet Union; winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1978 Lev Landau...
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(1905–1996) British John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980) American 1978 Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) Soviet "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the...
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leading to the development of the first modern oil refinery. 1937 Pyotr Kapitsa, John Allen and Don Misener produce supercooled helium-4, the first...
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Chinese University of Hong Kong Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Pyotr Kapitsa Physics 1978 Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union Katalin Karikó...
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93 °C). Below 2.17 K liquid 4He becomes a superfluid (Nobel Prize 1978, Pyotr Kapitsa) and shows characteristic properties such as heat conduction through...
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electroplating, electrotyping, galvanoplastic sculpture and electric boat Pyotr Kapitsa, originated the techniques for creating ultrastrong magnetic fields...
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Pyotr Kapitsa (an experimental low-temperature physicist and the founder and head of the institute) and Bohr wrote letters to Joseph Stalin. Kapitsa personally...
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electroplating, electrotyping, galvanoplastic sculpture and electric boat Pyotr Kapitsa, originated the techniques for creating ultrastrong magnetic fields...
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the USSR from 15 years of age. He was able to escape. Belgium 1978 Pyotr Kapitsa Physics Soviet Union 1987 Joseph Brodsky Literature He was not a citizen...
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prominent Soviet physicists, Yakov Zeldovich, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Pyotr Kapitsa, presented a case against Lysenko, proclaiming his work as pseudoscience...
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fight against planetary emergencies. In 1982, with P. A. M. Dirac and Pyotr Kapitsa, he drafted the Erice statement. Zichichi gave the opening talk at the...
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