Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza  (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița (Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa. Encyclopædia Britannica – 8 April 1984) was a Soviet physicist and engineer. He was best known for his work in low-temperature physics. He won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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