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Pyotr Kapitsa

1894 - 1984

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pyotr Kapitsa is the 213th most popular physicist (down from 200th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 235th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Physicist.

Pyotr Kapitsa was a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner. He is most famous for his work in low-temperature physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 213 out of 851. Before him are Murray Gell-Mann, Theodor W. Hänsch, Edward Mills Purcell, James Cronin, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and David Lee. After him are Yoichiro Nambu, Joseph Rotblat, Steven Weinberg, Wolfgang Paul, Robert H. Goddard, and Melvin Schwartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 24. Before him are Kim Hyong-jik, Isaac Babel, Gala Dalí, Alexander Oparin, Dietrich von Choltitz, and Karl Böhm. After him are Heinrich Lübke, Harold Macmillan, Kiichiro Toyoda, Alfred Kinsey, C. R. Swart, and Hermann Oberth. Among people deceased in 1984, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 20. Before him are Julio Cortázar, Johnny Weissmuller, Stanislaw Ulam, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Ed Gein, and Martin Ryle. After him are Vicente Aleixandre, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, Janaki Ammal, and Karl Wolff.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 202 out of 3,761. Before him are Felix Yusupov (1887), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Nicholas Roerich (1874), and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875). After him are Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Grigori Perelman (1966), Alexei Leonov (1934), Vladimir Propp (1895), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), and Mikhail Suslov (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 10. Before him are Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928). After him are Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Nikolay Basov (1922), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), and Alexey Ekimov (1945).

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