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Pyotr Kapitsa
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Person

Pyotr Kapitsa

1894 – 1984 · aged 90

Soviet physicist

Born
1894 · Kronstadt
Died
8 Apr 1984 · Moscow
Part ofRussia1223 – todayRussian Empire1681 – 1922Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic1842 – 1922Soviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 1894BornBorn in Kronstadt
  2. 1941AwardState Stalin Prize, 1st degree
  3. 1942AwardFaraday Medal
  4. 1943AwardState Stalin Prize, 1st degree
  5. 1943AwardOrder of Lenin
  6. 1944AwardOrder of Lenin
  7. 1944AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Alger
  8. 1944AwardFranklin Medal
  9. 1945AwardHero of Socialist Labour
  10. 1945AwardOrder of Lenin
  11. 1945AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  12. 1954AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour
  13. 1959AwardCothenius Medal
  14. 8 Apr 1984DiedDied in Moscow

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1894 – 1984).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица; Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 27 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984), also known as Peter Kapitza, was a Russian and Soviet physicist, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.

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