Kapitsa
or Ka·pi·tza
[ kah-pyi-tsuh ]
/ ˈkɑ pyɪ tsə /
noun
Pyotr L(e·o·ni·do·vich)
[pyawtr lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /pyɔtr lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/,1894–1984,
Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1978.
British Dictionary definitions for kapitza
Kapitza
/ (kəˈpitsa) /
noun
Piotr Leonidovich (ˈpjɔt ə r liɔˈnidovitʃ). 1894–1984, Russian physicist. He worked in England and the USSR, doing research in several areas, particularly cryogenics; Nobel prize for physics in 1978
Scientific definitions for kapitza
Kapitsa
[ kä′pyĭ-tsə ]
Russian physicist who developed equipment capable of generating powerful magnetic fields, which he used to make several discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics. For this work he shared with American physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson the 1978 Nobel Prize for physics.