Kapitsa

American  

[kah-pyi-tsuh] / ˈkɑ pjɪ tsə /

Or Kapitza

noun

1. Pyotr L(eonidovich) 1894–1984, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1978.

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Kapitsa Scientific  

/ kä′pyĭ-tsə /

1. Russian physicist who developed equipment capable of generating powerful magnetic fields, which he used to make several discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics. For this work he shared with American physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson the 1978 Nobel Prize for physics.

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The other half of the prize went to a Russian, Peter Kapitsa, 84, for his work in low-temperature physics.

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Retorted Khrushchev scornfully: "That's not why we admire Kapitsa and Landau."

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According to Kapitsa, the events on Damansky had had the effect of an electric shock on Moscow.

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But Kapitsa, according to Khrushchev, refused to get involved in military research.

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Physicist Peter Kapitsa, who was placed under arrest for refusing to work on the atom bomb, is now back in favor and heads a research institute of his own.

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