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Pyotr Kapitsa

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Pyotr Kapitsa

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Also known as Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Peter Kapitza

Soviet physicist

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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a figure recognized in the Royal Society collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Physics collection. He received one Nobel Prize. His works are included in the Crossref database, which lists five works, and the Open Library, which lists one work titled *Peter kapitsa on life and science*.

Kapitsa was born on June 26, 1894, and died on April 8, 1984. He has an Erdős number of 5. His name appears in the Commons category and gallery for Pyotr Kapitsa. Additionally, he is referenced by 458 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Peter kapitsa on life and science

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

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Active from
2005-05

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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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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pyotr Kapitsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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