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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson

Pyotr Kapitsa - Facts

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

Born: 9 July 1894, Kronshtadt, Russian Empire

Died: 8 April 1984, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union

Affiliation at the time of the award: Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR

Prize motivation: "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics"

Field: Condensed matter physics, superfluidity

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