Pyotr Kapitsa in the 1930s
Native name Пётр Леонидович Капица
Born Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
8 July 1894
Kronstadt, Russian Empire
Died 8 April 1984 (aged 89)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Citizenship Russian Empire (1894–1917) → RSFSR (1917–1922) → Soviet Union (1922–1984)
Nationality Russian, Soviet
Fields Physics
Doctoral students David Shoenberg
Known for Superfluidity
Notable awards
FRS (1929)[1]
Faraday Medal (1942)
Franklin Medal (1944)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1959)
Rutherford Medal and Prize (1966)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1978)