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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

OverviewAI-generated

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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
2005-05

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death

    · 2022 · cited 2,790x

  2. 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies

    · 2023 · cited 2,498x

  3. European Society of Cardiology: cardiovascular disease statistics 2021

    · 2022 · cited 980x

  4. European Society of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2019

    · 2019 · cited 911x

  5. Structural Abnormalities in Atrial Walls Are Associated With Presence and Persistency of Atrial Fibrillation But Not With Age

    · 2011 · cited 438x

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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
Child
Sergey Kapitsa
Occupation
professor
Educated at
University of Cambridge
Employer
P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS
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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Commons category
Pyotr Kapitsa
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
member of
International Academy of Astronautics
student
David Shoenberg
P8168
Macro-Jê
place of burial
Novodevichy Cemetery
date of birth
1894-06-26
date of death
1984-04-08
Erdős number
5
Commons gallery
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
Sources (15)

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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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