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Kapitsa

American

[kah-pyi-tsuh] / ˈkɑ pjɪ tsə /

Or Kapitza

noun

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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Kapitsa

According to Kapitsa, the events on Damansky had had the effect of an electric shock on Moscow.

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

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Retorted Khrushchev scornfully: "That's not why we admire Kapitsa and Landau."

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Then Kapitsa expressed a desire to go abroad.

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