* Peter Kapiza *

* Physicist *

* Birthday - July 8, 1894 *

Peter Leo Nidovich Kapiza (Russian: Леони́дович); July 8, 1894 - April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

He was born on 8 July 1894 in Kronstadt. His early education took place in Petrograd. After...