Pyotr Leonidovich KapitsaFRS (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица; Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July[O.S. 26 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984), 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.
