Kapitza
Britishnoun
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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
Five years ago a distinguished Russian-born scientist named Peter Kapitza committed an imprudence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kapitza, for example, has a country dacha and two chauffeurs; he said that if he wanted a house in the mountains the Government would gladly build him one.
From Time Magazine Archive
By building up and suddenly short-circuiting huge accumulations of electricity through a set of coils, Kapitza produced magnetic fields five times more powerful than any before.
From Time Magazine Archive
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