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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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Pyotr Kapitsa appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Physics collection — one of 230 entries. It also appears in Nobel Laureates.
Vinony's link graph records 458 inbound references to Pyotr Kapitsa, and connects out to University of Cambridge, Kronstadt and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University.
It is catalogued under topics including 1894 births, 1984 deaths and 20th-century Russian scientists.
Vinony links it to 82 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Russia
- Active from
- 1894
- Active to
- 1984
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pyotr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Kronstadt
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Child
- Sergey Kapitsa
- Occupation
- professor
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Award
- Helmholtz Medal
- Doctoral advisor
- Ernest Rutherford
- Student of
- Abram Ioffe
- Doctoral student
- Mark Azbel
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Pyotr Kapitsa 1930s.jpg
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- David Shoenberg
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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
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- 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.
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