Kapitsa

American

[kah-pyi-tsuh] / ˈkɑ pjɪ tsə /

Or Kapitza

noun

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

Kapitsa Scientific

/ kä′pyĭ-tsə /

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 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, why won't you work on something of military significance?

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Then Kapitsa expressed a desire to go abroad.

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

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