# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrey-kapitsa
# Generated: 2026-09-01T17:04:55.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrey-kapitsa"
name: "Andrey Kapitsa"
slug: "andrey-kapitsa"
description: "Andrey Petrovich Kapitsa was a Soviet and Russian geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica. He was a member of the Kapitsa family, a scientific dynasty in Russia."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian geographer (1931–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Andrey_Kapitsa.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-07-09"
deathDate: "2011-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.08
  momentum:             0.1649175412293853
  historical:           10.31548266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "安德烈·彼得罗维奇·卡皮察"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اندرى كابيتسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Капица Андрей Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Petrowitsch_Kapiza"
    title: "Andrei Petrowitsch Kapiza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Kapitsa"
    title: "Andrey Kapitsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Kapitsa"
    title: "Andrei Kapitsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Kapitsa"
    title: "Andrei Kapitsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%C3%AF_Kapitsa"
    title: "Andreï Kapitsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Petrovi%C4%8D_Kapica"
    title: "Andrej Petrovič Kapica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Капица, Андрей Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8F_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Капиця Андрій Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Petrovich_Kapitsa"
    title: "Andrey Petrovich Kapitsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q502396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump