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Pyotr Kapitsa

Soviet physicist · Russia · Scientists · Lived 1894 to 1984 · aged 89

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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza was a leading Soviet Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.

A life in dates

1984Died8 April 19841981Helmholtz MedalAward1974Order of LeninAward1973Simon Memorial PrizeAward1971Order of LeninAward1966Rutherford Medal and PrizeAward1964Order of the Partisan StarAward1959Cothenius MedalAwardLomonosov Gold MedalAward1945Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of ParisAwardOrder of LeninAward1944Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of AlgerAwardFranklin MedalAward1943Order of LeninAward1941State Stalin Prize, 1st degreeAward1894Born26 June 1894

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Kapitsa, standing leftmost with Professor Abram Ioffe (seated fourth from left) in 1915Kapitsa, standing leftmost with Professor Abram Ioffe (seated fourth from left) in 1915Kapitsa (left) and Nikolay Semyonov, the physics and chemistry Nobel laureates (portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921).Kapitsa (left) and Nikolay Semyonov, the physics and chemistry Nobel laureates (portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921).

Awards

Helmholtz Medal1981
Nobel Prize in Physics1978
Order of Lenin1974
Hero of Socialist Labour1974
Simon Memorial Prize1973
Order of Lenin1971
Kamerlingh Onnes Award1968
Rutherford Medal and Prize1966
Niels Bohr International Gold Medal1965
Order of Lenin1964
Order of the Partisan Star1964
Cothenius Medal1959
Lomonosov Gold Medal1959
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1954
Order of Lenin1945
Hero of Socialist Labour1945
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris1945
Order of Lenin1944
Franklin Medal1944
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Alger1944
Order of Lenin1943
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1943
Faraday Medal1942
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1941
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

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Country
Russia
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1984 · aged 89

In common with Pyotr

Peter HiggsBoth received Rutherford Medal and PrizeHans BetheBoth received Niels Bohr International Gold MedalIsidor Isaac RabiBoth received Niels Bohr International Gold MedalAage BohrBoth received Rutherford Medal and PrizeRobert Coleman RichardsonBoth received Simon Memorial PrizeFrancis SimonBoth received Kamerlingh Onnes Award

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