Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa. Nobel Prize 1978

Russian physicist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894-1984). Kapitsa was famous for his study of superfluidity and of matter at very low temperatures, among other things. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. He was a professor at Cambridge, England, for 13 years. Returning to Russia in 1935, he was arrested in 1946 for refusing to work on nuclear weapons, then released after Stalin's death. Honored in his country once more, Kapitsa criticized Communist officials for attempting to make scientific theory fit political dogma. Science, he once told them, is like a Stradivarius violin; this is the best violin in the world, but to play one you have to be a musician and know music. Otherwise it will sound no better than any other violin

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