Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894-1984)

Awarded the Prize “for his basic inventions discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics.”

Soviet physicist. Kapitsa was born in Kronshtadt, Russia on July 8, 1894. He was graduated from the Polytechnic Institute the Physical Technical Institute in Petrograd in 1918. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1923. He was involved in magnetic research at the Cavendish Laboratory. He was Director of the Institute for Physical Problems. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts Sciences the Royal Society in London. Kapitsa died on April 8, 1984 in Moscow.