Peter Kapitza

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Nobel laureate Soviet physicist human physicist

Peter Kapitza was a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in low-temperature physics and the study of liquid helium.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate → Soviet physicist → human → physicist →
academicAdvisor	Ernest Rutherford →
awardReceived	Hero of Socialist Labour → Lenin Prize → Nobel Prize in Physics → Royal Society Copley Medal → Stalin Prize →
birthName	Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa →
burialPlace	Novodevichy Cemetery →
citizenship	Russian Empire → Soviet Union →
countryOfBirth	Russian Empire →
countryOfDeath	Soviet Union →
dateOfBirth	1894-07-08 →
dateOfDeath	1984-04-08 →
educatedAt	Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute → University of Cambridge →
familyName	Kapitza →
fieldOfWork	low-temperature physics → physics → plasma physics →
gender	male →
givenName	Pyotr →
knownFor	Kapitza resistance → Kapitza–Dirac effect → discovery of superfluidity in helium-4 → pioneering work in low-temperature physics → research on liquid helium →
languageSpoken	English → Russian →
memberOf	Royal Society → Soviet Academy of Sciences →
nativeName	Пётр Леонидович Капица →
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
NobelPrizeMotivation	for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics →
NobelPrizeYear	1978 →
placeOfBirth	Kronstadt →
placeOfDeath	Moscow →
positionHeld	director of the Institute for Physical Problems →
spouse	Anna Krylova →
workedOn	high-power radio-frequency generators → liquefaction of helium → strong magnetic fields →
workplace	Cavendish Laboratory → Institute for Physical Problems → Lebedev Physical Institute →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cavendish Laboratory →	associatedWithPerson
Peter Kapitza ("Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa") →	birthName
Sergei Kapitsa ("Pyotr Kapitsa") →	father
Lev Okun ("Pyotr Kapitsa") →	influencedBy
Peter Kapitza ("Пётр Леонидович Капица") →	nativeName
Rumford Medal ("Pyotr Kapitsa") →	notableRecipient