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Pyotr Kapitsa
Born: July 8, 1894
Died: April 8, 1984 (aged 89)
Bio: Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леони́дович Капи́ца, Romanian: Petre Capiţa was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.
Known for:
- Experiment, theory, practice (1980)
- High-Power Electronics (1966)
- Kaptiza in Cambridge and Moscow
- Collected Papers of P.L. Kapitza