Pyotr Kapitsa
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1978for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics
- Citizenship
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Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
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
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- 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
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- member of
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- 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
- American Physical Society
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- inventor
- professor
- physicist
- educated at
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- University of Cambridge
- Trinity College
- Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute
- start time: 1/1/1914
- doctoral student
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- David Shoenberg
- Mark Azbel