Kapitsa

or Ka·pi·tza

[ kah-pyi-tsuh ]

noun

1. Pyotr L(e·o·ni·do·vich) [pyawt, r, lyi-uh-, nyee, -d, uh, -vyich], 1894–1984, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1978.

Kapitsa

/ 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.