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Sergey Kapitsa

1928 - 2012

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Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (Russian: Сергей Петрович Капица; 14 February 1928 – 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father was the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Kapitsa is the 583rd most popular physicist (up from 590th in 2019), the 3,214th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,984th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 583 out of 851. Before him are Wallace Clement Sabine, Norman Holter, Mark Oliphant, Yakov Frenkel, Yulii Khariton, and Antonio Pacinotti. After him are Georg Adolf Erman, Otto Lehmann, Sumio Iijima, Michael Berry, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, and Kenneth Bainbridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 341. Before him are Carl Dahlhaus, Bob Crane, Frank Rosenblatt, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Stanley Baker, and André Schwarz-Bart. After him are Kiyoshi Atsumi, Elina Bystritskaya, Jaime Sin, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Dušan Džamonja, and Leonid Bronevoy. Among people deceased in 2012, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 236. Before him are Pierre Mondy, Kurt Adolff, Edvard Mirzoyan, Rashidi Yekini, Armand Penverne, and Ann Rutherford. After him are Rafael Lesmes, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Margaret Osborne duPont, William Windom, Eugênio Sales, and Ahmed Jabari.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 3,215 out of 8,785. Before him are Ronald Neame (1911), Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Philip Catherine (1942), Eric Frank Russell (1905), Simon McBurney (1957), and Spencer Gore (1850). After him are Reginald Owen (1887), George Hillyard (1864), Sidney Smith (1764), George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), Peter Gethin (1940), and Pippa Middleton (1983).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 67. Before him are Gilbert Walker (1868), John Robison (1739), William Astbury (1898), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), and John Lennard-Jones (1894). After him are Michael Berry (1941), John D. Barrow (1952), William Edward Ayrton (1847), James David Forbes (1809), John Polkinghorne (1930), and Bernard Lovell (1913).

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