| Nobel Laureate Peter Kapitza Bhadra Tuladhar1; 1KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY, Kavre, Nepal; PAPER: 314/Physics/Regular (Oral) SCHEDULED: 14:25/Mon. 28 Nov. 2022/Arcadia 3 ABSTRACT: Russian Physicist Peter Kapitza (1894-1984) was the young scientists attracted to work with Ernest Rutherford and gained a doctorate in Physics in July 1923 from Cambridge. He graduated from Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1919 and was awarded the degree of Engineer-Electrician. The Physico-mechanics faculty of the Institute was at that time headed by Abram Fedorovich Joffe. In Cambridge, Kapitza started Physics Seminar from 1922 which was later named as “Kapitza Club”. In 1930, chemist and industrialist Ludwig Mond donated the required fund to London Royal Society for the construction of a specialized laboratory exclusively for research work of Kapitza. He lived and work in Cambridge till 1934. In 1935, Kapitza created The Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow and worked as its director. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. He the died on April 8, 1984 in Moscow. I will talk about the family tragedy of December 1919, the work and stay in Cambridge, work in Moscow, quotes from the Nobel speech, my several visit to him in Moscow and finally, the Kapitza Memorial Museum in Moscow. References: [1] P. L. Kapitza, Experiment Theory Practical, Moscow, 1979 (in Russian) [2] Peter Leonidovich Kapitza, Memories Letters Documents, Russian Academy of Science, 1994 (in Russian) |
