Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

Nobel Prize in Physics 1978

“for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics”

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a Soviet physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics. At the time of the award, he was affiliated with the Academy of Sciences in Russia.