Born in Kronstadt, Russia
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Anna Alekseevna (Krylova) Kaptisa
— married
1927 [location unknown]
Died
at age 89
in Moscow, Soviet Union
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Biography
Pyotr (Капи́ца) Kapitsa is Notable.
- 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics[1][2]
- s/o Leonid Petrovich Kapitsa (military engineer) & Olga Ieronimovna ??Stebnicki??[1]
- 1918 wife and 2 children died of flu
- studied in Britain but was detained in USSR when he went there to visit his parents.
- 1927 m. Anna Alekseevna Krylova, daughter of AN Krylova[1]
- Sergei, Andrey
- Minor planet named after him
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wikipedia: Pyotr Kapitsa, accessed 26 Sept 2019.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978." The Nobel Prize. https://www.nobelprize.org/. Accessed 26 Sept 2019.
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