Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, 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.
- Occupation
- physicist, inventor, professor
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
- Born
- June 26, 1894
- Died
- April 8, 1984
