Pyotr Kapitsa was a Russian physicist who directed the Mond Laboratory in England and the Physical Problems Institute in the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s. He performed important research on...
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The Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894-1984) made notable contributions to knowledge of atomic structures and to understanding the behavior of matter in strong magnetic fields and at ex...
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Kapitza was born in Kronstadt, Russia, on July 8, 1894, the son of Russian army general. He was educated at the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute and the Petrograd Physical and Technical Institute. Af...
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Pyotr Kapitsa
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Pyotr (Peter) Leonidovich Kapitza