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Sergey Kapitsa

1928 - 2012

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Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (Russian: Сергей Петрович Капица; 14 February 1928 – 14 August 2012) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergey Kapitsa has received more than 57,871 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sergey Kapitsa is the 523rd most popular physicist (up from 553rd in 2019), the 2,609th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,748th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 523 out of 717Before him are Carlo Rovelli, Robert H. Dicke, Vladimir Steklov, Clarence Zener, Lester Germer, and Max Wien. After him are John Sealy Townsend, Gerard K. O'Neill, Samuel T. Cohen, Yakir Aharonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, and Georg Hermann Quincke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 279Before him are Leon Fleisher, Estelle Harris, Paul Johnson, José Bonaparte, Peter Shirayanagi, and Natalie Zemon Davis. After him are Anita Brookner, Milka Babović, Mitchell Ryan, Art Farmer, Emilio Pericoli, and Kiyoshi Atsumi. Among people deceased in 2012, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 196Before him are Txillardegi, Dom Mintoff, Kurt Adolff, Assef Shawkat, Simeon ten Holt, and Marvin Hamlisch. After him are Fang Lizhi, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Pierre Sinibaldi, Eugene Polley, Paavo Berglund, and George Knobel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 2,609 out of 7,765Before him are Venetia Burney (1918), Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609), John Wilkes (1725), Gladys Cooper (1888), Jeremy Bulloch (1945), and Ralph Abercromby (1734). After him are Amanda Tapping (1965), Rory McCann (1969), Harry Seeley (1839), Norman Lockyer (1836), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), and Ron Flowers (1934).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Sergey Kapitsa ranks 62Before him are John Leslie (1766), Ernest Marsden (1889), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Michael Green (1946), Michael Berry (1941), and Paul Davies (1946). After him are James David Forbes (1809), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Francis Hauksbee (1660), C. P. Snow (1905), John D. Barrow (1952), and John Robison (1739).