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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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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"You may not like my work, Comrade Khrushchev," the sculptor said, "but it has the warm admiration of such eminent Soviet scientists as Kapitsa and Landau."

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In 1934, Russian-born Peter Kapitsa, after a distinguished career as one of Britain's top physicists, went to Moscow for a scientific conference.

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Comrade Kapitsa," I said, "what choice do we have?

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I now ask Academician Kapitsa, whom I've always respected as a great scientist, to forgive me.

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