Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Kapitsa
Pyotr Kapitsa
Пётр Капица
	Kapitsa in the 1930s
Born	Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa; 9 July 1894; Kronstadt, Russian Empire
Died	8 April 1984 (aged 89); Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Citizenship	USSR
Alma mater	Petrograd Polytechnical Institute; Cambridge University (PhD, 1923)
Known for	Superfluidity; Kapitza instability; Kapitza number; Kapitza resistance; Kapitza's pendulum; Kapitsa–Dirac effect
Awards	FRS (1929); Faraday Medal (1942); Franklin Medal (1944); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1959); Cothenius Medal (1959); Rutherford Medal and Prize (1966); Nobel Prize in Physics (1978);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Institute for Physical Problems; Cambridge University; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Ernest Rutherford
Doctoral students	David Shoenberg

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza FRS (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 26 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.