The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Awarded on: 1978-10-17
"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics"
Affiliations:
- Academy of Sciences – Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Born: 1894-07-09 in Kronshtadt, Russian Empire (now Russia)
Gender: male
Field: Russian and Soviet physicist (1894–1984)
Biography
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, also known as Peter Kapitza, was a Russian and Soviet physicist, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.