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Pyotr Kapitsa

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1978
for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics
Citizenship
Russian Empire Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Soviet Union
Languages
English, Russian
date of birth
7/8/1894
place of birth
Kronstadt
date of death
4/8/1984
place of death
Moscow
Lived
89 years
employer
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
    • start time: 10/1/1943
  • P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS
    • start time: 1/1/1935
    • end time: 8/7/1946
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
    • start time: 1/1/1956
  • Ioffe Institute
  • Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
  • A.V. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography
  • P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS
  • University of Cambridge
member of
  • American Physical Society
    • start time: 1/1/1937
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1/24/1939
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1/1/1958
  • International Academy of Astronautics
    • start time: 1/1/1964
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1962
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1966
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1968
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • start time: 1/1/1971
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1969
  • International Academy of the History of Science
    • start time: 1/1/1971
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1946
  • New York Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1946
  • Royal Irish Academy
    • start time: 1/1/1948
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
    • start time: 1/1/1946
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 2/13/1929
  • Royal Society
    • start time: 5/2/1929
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • inventor
  • professor
  • physicist
educated at
  • University of Cambridge
  • Trinity College
  • Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute
    • start time: 1/1/1914
doctoral student
  • David Shoenberg
  • Mark Azbel
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