Kapitza, Peter

The physicists Peter Kapitza, who later won a Nobel Prize for his work on low-temperature physics, Igor Tamm, and Andrei... 

Scientists working in the field of nuclear physics included Niels Bohr, a Dane, Enrico Fermi, an Italian, Wolfgang Pauli, an Austrian, Georg von Hevesy, a Hungarian, Peter Kapitza and D. Skobelzyn of the Soviet Union, Chandrasekhara Raman of India, and H. Yukawa, a Japanese who as... 

Alvarez the eminent French nuclear scientist Frederic Joliot (a transfer of the Dubna suggestion for naming element 102) the scientific giant Sir Isaac Newton the famous inventor Thomas Edison the famous scholar and inventor Leonardo da Vinci early explorers such as Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and the mythical Ulysses the great American statesman George Washington a Russian scientist such as Peter Kapitza or Andrei Sakharov and the native land of a member of the discovery team, Finland. 

In Kazan at the end of 1941 he heard from George Flerov, one of the two young physicists in his Moscow laboratory who had discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium in 1940 and reported their discovery in a cable to the Physical Review. Flerov had attended an international meeting of scientists in Moscow in October and heard Peter Kapitza, Ernest Rutherford s prot6g6, when asked what scientists could do to help the war effort, respond in part ... 

Churchill was in no mood to see Bohr the Danish laureate cooled his heels for weeks. While he waited he heard from the Soviets. Peter Kapitza... 

Cavendish FHS had a chance to work with John E. Lennard-Jones in quantum mechanics, met Max Born who had also left Germany, and attended Bom s seminars. He regretted that he was unable to work with Peter Kapitza who had been at Cambridge with Rutherford for fourteen years but was spending his annual vacation in 1934 visiting relatives in the Soviet Union. Kapitza did not return to England, clearly not by his choice but due to Stalin s decree. 

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