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Pyotr Kapitsa

1894 - 1984

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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pyotr Kapitsa has received more than 346,346 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Pyotr Kapitsa is the 200th most popular physicist (down from 174th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Russia (up from 242nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Physicist.

Pyotr Kapitsa was a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner. He is most famous for his work in low-temperature physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 200 out of 851. Before him are Douglas Osheroff, Herbert Kroemer, Edward Mills Purcell, Steven Weinberg, Ilya Frank, and Anton Zeilinger. After him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Michio Kaku, David J. Wineland, Mihajlo Pupin, Alain Aspect, and Arthur Leonard Schawlow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 26. Before him are Dietrich von Choltitz, Kiichiro Toyoda, Alfred Kinsey, Satyendra Nath Bose, Heinrich Lübke, and Alexander Oparin. After him are Otto Grotewohl, Hermann Oberth, Benjamin Graham, Kim Hyong-jik, Fyodor Tolbukhin, and Arthur Nebe. Among people deceased in 1984, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 26. Before him are Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Anna Anderson, Truman Capote, and Oleg Antonov. After him are Marvin Gaye, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Dmitry Ustinov, Stanley Milgram, Vicente Aleixandre, and Philippe Ariès.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 235 out of 3,761. Before him are Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Ilya Frank (1908), and Daniel of Moscow (1261). After him are Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Ivan Krylov (1769), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), and Boris Nemtsov (1959).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Pyotr Kapitsa ranks 12. Before him are Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), and Ilya Frank (1908). After him are Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Andre Geim (1958), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), and Georgy Flyorov (1913).

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