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KAPITSA, PYQTR LEQNIDOVICH (Physicist) 



P. L. Kapitsa was born July 8, 1894. In 1918 he graduated 

 from the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd (Leningrad) and 

 began scientific work under A. F. loffe (1880-1959, solid state 

 physicist). He was sent in 1921 on a scientific trip to England 

 where he worked until 1930 under E. Rutherford in the Caven- 

 dish Laboratory at Cambridge University. From 1930 to 1934 

 he was Director of the Monde Laboratory at Cambridge Uni- 

 versity. In 1935 Kapitsa was persuaded to remain in the Soviet 

 Union. From 1935 to 1946 and again in 1955 he was Director of 

 the Institute of Physics Problems of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences. He was elected a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 1929 and an Academician in 

 1939. In 1941 and in 1943 he received Stalin Prizes. He was 

 made a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1945. Kapitsa is editor of 

 the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. 

 He was a member of and honored by many foreign organizations 

 including: London Royal Society (1929), Danish Academy of 

 Sciences (1946), National Academy of Sciences of the U. S. A. 

 (1946), English Institute of Metals (1943), Franklin Institute in 

 the U. S. A. (1944), Paris University, University of Oslo, Uni- 

 versity of Algiers. 



The first investigations of Kapitsa are devoted to the study 

 of the inertia of electrons and properties of radiation. In 1920, 

 in the article, "The Possibility of Determining the Magnetic 

 Moment of the Atom," Kapitsa, together with N. N. Semenov, 

 proposed an experiment on the determination of magnetic 

 moments of atoms in atomic beams. Kapitsa constructed an 



