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Kapitsa

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Ka·pi·tsa  (käpy-ts), Pyotr Leonidovich 1894-1984.
Russian physicist. He shared a 1978 Nobel Prize for his inventions and discoveries concerning low-temperature physics.


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Abrikosov did his pioneering work at the Kapitsa Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow and other Russian institutions.
Also, as the top China expert m the Soviet foreign ministry, Mikhail Kapitsa, observed in the documentary, rivalry with China for world communist leadership was encouraging Moscow to take a more radical stand on Vietnam.
Vice President and chief research hydrologist with ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller, an environmental and engineering services consulting firm, has been awarded the Kapitsa Gold Medal of Honor from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
 
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