- a variation of Kapitsa.
Kapitza
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The cheerful, striped floor covering, designed by sisters Petra and Nicole Kapitza, features a soil-resistant wool surface and cotton backing; 5 feet, 7 inches by 7 feet, 10 inches, $150.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
It’s not that he disdained fancy and expensive equipment; his students Ernest Walton, John Cockcroft and Piotr Kapitza did construct giant machines accelerating particles to high speeds and generating intense magnetic fields.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2013
The National Academy of Sciences added a "foreign associate" to its goodly company: Russian physicist Peter Kapitza, Hero of Socialist Labor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some 14 years ago big-eyed, bushy-haired Peter Kapitza emerged from Leningrad's Polytechnical Institute, went to England's Cambridge, puttered with radioactivity.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Don't worry," it comforted its people, "the great Kapitza will build you a bomb in no time."
From Time Magazine Archive
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