Sergey Kapitsa

Soviet and Russian physicist, TV host (1928-2012) · United Kingdom · Scientists · Died at 84

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Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa 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.

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2012Died14 August 2012Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the field of propagation of scientific knowledgeAwardMore about this, 20122011Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th classAward2008TEFIAward2006Order of HonourAward2002Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of educationAwardMore about this1980USSR State PrizeAward1979Kalinga PrizeAward1928Born14 February 1928

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Sergei Kapitsa on a postage stamp in 2015

Awards

Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the field of propagation of scientific knowledge2012

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class2011

TEFI2008

Order of Honour2006

Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of education2002

USSR State Prize1980

Kalinga Prize1979

Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

VDNKh gold medal

Family

Father Pyotr Kapitsa

Sergey Kapitsa

Partners

Spouse Tatiana Damir

Child Fiodor Kapitsa

Sibling Andrey Kapitsa

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Eugene AlexandrovBoth received Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the field of propagation of scientific knowledge

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