Kapitsa

American  

[kah-pyi-tsuh] / ˈkɑ pyɪ 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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Example Sentences

I must admit that this line of reasoning made a strange impression on me�one not at all favorable to Academician Kapitsa.

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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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In 1949, after the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, there was speculation in the Western press that famed Nuclear Scientist Pyotr Kapitsa had played a crucial role in the bomb's development.

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When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again�on the ground that he was too precious a commodity to be allowed abroad.

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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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