Editing Pyotr Kapitsa (section)

{{short description|Soviet physicist and Nobel Laureate (1894–1984)}}
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{{family name hatnote|Leonidovich|Kapitsa|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox scientist
| birth_name        = Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
| native_name       = {{nobold|Пётр Капица}}
| image             = Pyotr Kapitsa 1930s.jpg
| image_size        = 
| caption           = Kapitsa in the 1930s
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1894|7|9|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Kronstadt, Russia|Kronstadt]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1984|4|8|1894|7|8|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]]
| resting_place     = [[Novodevichy Cemetery]], [[Moscow]]
| residence         = 
| citizenship       = USSR
| field             = [[Physics]]
| workplaces        = [[Moscow State University]]
| alma_mater        = 
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Abram Ioffe]]
| academic_advisor  = 
| doctoral_students = [[David Shoenberg]]
| notable_students  = 
| known_for         = [[Superfluidity]]<br>[[Kapitza instability]]<br>[[Kapitza number]]<br>[[Interfacial thermal resistance|Kapitza resistance]]<br>[[Kapitza's pendulum]]<br>[[Kapitsa–Dirac effect]]
| influences        = 
| influenced        = 
| prizes            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] {{small|(1929)}}<ref name=frs/>
* [[Faraday Medal]]  {{small|(1942)}}
* [[Franklin Medal]] {{small|(1944)}}
* [[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] {{small|(1959)}}
* [[Cothenius Medal]] {{small|(1959)}}
* [[Rutherford Medal and Prize]] {{small|(1966)}}
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{small|(1978)}}  }}
| religion          = 
| signature         = <!--(filename only)-->
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}}

'''Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa''' or '''Peter Kapitza''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} ({{langx|ru|Пётр Леонидович Капица}}, {{langx|ro|Petre Capița}}; {{OldStyleDate|9 July|1894|26 June}}<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/311753/Pyotr-Leonidovich-Kapitsa Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa]. Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> – 8 April 1984) was a leading [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[physicist]] and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel]] laureate,<ref name=nobel>{{Nobelprize}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Kapitza,+Peter|title=Alsos: Browse Results: People: Kapitza, Peter|website=alsos.wlu.edu|access-date=7 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828141912/http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people%2FKapitza%2C+Peter|archive-date=28 August 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> whose research focused on low-temperature physics.