Editing Pyotr Kapitsa (section)

== Honors and awards ==
A [[minor planet]], [[3437 Kapitsa]], discovered by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] astronomer [[Lyudmila Karachkina]] in 1982, is named after him.<ref>Schmadel, Lutz D. (2013)  ''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names''. Springer. p. 287. {{ISBN|3662066157}}.</ref> He was elected a [[List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1929|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1929]].<ref name=frs>{{Cite journal | last1 = Shoenberg | first1 = D. | author-link = David Shoenberg| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1985.0012 | title = Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza. 9 July 1894 – 8 April 1984 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 31 | pages = 326–374 | year = 1985 | jstor = 769929 | s2cid = 57746295 }}</ref> In 1958 he was elected a Member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/list-of-members/member/4066/|title=List of Members|website=www.leopoldina.org|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref>

* [[Hero of Socialist Labour]] (1945 and 1974)
* [[USSR State Prize|Stalin Prize]], 1st class (1941 and 1943)
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1978)
* [[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] (1959)
* [[Cothenius Medal]] (1959)
* [[Simon Memorial Prize]] (1973)
* [[Order of Lenin]] (1943, 1944, 1945, 1964, 1971)
* [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] (1954)
* [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"]]
* [[Medal "Veteran of Labour"]]
* [[Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"]]
* [[Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]]
* [[Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"]]
* [[Order of the Partisan Star (Yugoslavia)]]