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

We knew Kapitsa had many friends and colleagues in the West, and we were afraid that if we let him make his trip, he might drop a few words here, a few words there.

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

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

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The pre-eminent Soviet expert on Asia, and China in particular, was Mikhail Kapitsa.

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