| Pyotr Kapitsa  AKA Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Born: 8-Jul-1894
Birthplace: Kronshtadt, Russia
Died: 8-Apr-1984
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Discovered superfluidity Father: Leonid Petrovich Kapitsa
Mother: Olga Ieronimovna Stebnitskaia
Wife: Anna Alekseevna Krylova (m. 1927, two sons)
Son: Sergei
Son: Andrei
University: Petrograd Polytechnical Institute (1918)
Teacher: Lecturer, Petrograd Polytechnical Institute (1918-21)
University: University of Cambridge (1921-26)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1978 (with Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson)
Hero of Socialist Labor 1945
Russian Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society 1929
Author of books:
The Heat Transfer and Superfluidity of Helium II (1941)
Research into the Mechanism of Heat Transfer in Helium II (1941)
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