Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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