 | PYOTR LEONIDOVICH KAPITSA |
Founder and director of the Institute for Physical Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences and professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1947–); assistant director of Magnetic Research at Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge from 1924 to 1932, director of the Mond Laboratory, Royal Society (1930–1940)
Membership of SASA: Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; foreign member from 16 December 1971
Accession speech: lectures at SASA: Contemporary Organization of Scientific Work, 24 September 1966; Energy and Global Problems, May 1977
Biography and bibliography: Boag, J.W, P.E. Rubinin and Shoenberg, D. (Eds.): Kapitza in Cambridge and Moscow: Life and Letters of a Russian Physicist. Amsterdam : North-Holland, 1990; Боровик-Романов А. С: Жизнь и научная деательност П. Л. Капицы. // Научные труды. Сильние магнитные поля / П. Л. Капица. Moscow : Наука, 1988, 5-14; Borovik-Romanov A. S: Predgovor // Eksperiment, teorija, praksa : članci i predavanja / P. L. Kapica. Novi Sad: RU ѣѣRadivoj Ćirpanov, 1980, 7-16; [Anonymous]: Библиография трудов П. Л. Капицы // Эксперимент, теория, практика : статьи, выступления / П. Л. Капица, mart dop.izd. Moscow: АН СССР, 1981, 485-489 (Наука, мировозрение, жизнь); Боровик-Романов А. С: Академик П. Л. Капица – лауреат Нобеловской премии // Вестник АН СССР, 4, 1979, 137-139; Ajdačić V: Živa istorija fizike : susret sa Pjotrom Leonidovičem Kapicom // Galaksija 6 : 7(63) (1977) 28-29; Alekseevskij N. E: Kapica Petr Leonidovič // Scienziati e tecnologi contemporanei, II. Milano : Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1974, 86-88 : fot.; Ципенюк Ю. М: Академик П. Л. Капица – дважды герой социалистического труда // Вестник АН СССР 10 (1974) 108-111 ; [Anonymous]: 70-летие академика П. Л. Капицы // Вестник Академии наук СССР, 34 : 9, 1964, 148-149;
Awards and recognitions: Nobel Prize in Physics (1978); state prize of USSR (1941, 1943); Order of Lenin (1943, 1944, 1945, 1964, 1971, 1974); Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR (1945, 1974); Order of the University of Liege (1934); Faraday Medal (1942); Franklin Medal (1944); Frederic Joliot-Curie Silver Medal of the World Peace Committee (1959); Medal for Merits in science and to mankind of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1964); International Niels Bohr Medal (1964); Rutherford Medal (1966); Copernic Memorial Order (1974); Order of Yugoslav banner with sash (1967)
Obituary: God. / SANU 91 (1985)411 (M. Ristić); Vestnik AN SSSR 6 (1984) 99–100 : fot.
Photograph: SANU F-562/1