scholarly journals Dr. Peter Kapitza, F. R. S.: Faraday Medallist

Nature ◽  
1942 ◽  
Vol 149 (3774) ◽  
pp. 241-241
Keyword(s):  
Peter Kapitza

The Crocodile and the Elephant

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
A. R. Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Peter Kapitza ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

In 1907 Ernest Rutherford (later named ‘The Crocodile’ by Peter Kapitza), 36 years old and already a world–famous physicist, moved from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, to the University of Manchester, England. In the same year Niels Bohr (later known by some as ‘The Elephant’––he was one of the very few non–royal recipients of the Order of the Elephant), a 22–year–old student at the University of Copenhagen, received the gold medal of the Royal Danish Academy for his first research project, an experimental and theoretical study of water jets. During the next 30 years, until Rutherford's death in 1937, these two great scientists dominated quantum physics. Rutherford was the father of nuclear physics; together they founded atomic physics; and, with their students and colleagues, they were responsible for the great majority of the decisive advances made in the inter–war years. This lecture tells the story of the development in quantum physics, and makes some comparisons between Bohr and Rutherford–as men and scientists–drawing especially on their extensive correspondence between 1912 and 1937, the material that Bohr gathered in connection with the publication in 1961 of his Rutherford Memorial Lecture, the interviews that he gave just before his death in 1962, and other published and unpublished material from the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen.

Letters from Kapitza to his mother, 1921-27

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-228 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War I ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
World War ◽  
Technical Institute ◽  
The West ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Peter Kapitza

Peter Kapitza (1894—1984) came to England as a member of a Soviet mission sent to renew scientific relations with the West after the upheavals of World War I, the Revolution and the Civil War. He had recently suffered the tragic loss of his wife, their two young children and his father in the epidemics that raged in the Soviet Union at that time. It was partly to distract him from his grief that he was invited to join the mission, and A. F. Joffé, who had been his chief at the Physico-Technical Institute in Petrograd, thought it would be a good thing for him to get some first-hand experience of the latest research techniques by spending the winter in a leading physics laboratory in the West. Eventually, Rutherford agreed to have him in the Cavendish and Kapitza made such an impression by his originality and experimental skill that he was encouraged to extend his stay.

scholarly journals Science East and West: reflections of Peter Kapitza

Nature ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 288 (5791) ◽  
pp. 627-627
Author(s):  
Nevill Mott
Keyword(s):  
East And West ◽  
Peter Kapitza

scholarly journals Persönliches: Peter Kapitza zum 100. Geburtstag

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 579-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kozhevnikov
Keyword(s):  
Peter Kapitza

scholarly journals Peter Kapitza

Physics Today ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 95-97
Author(s):  
Joseph Rotblat
Keyword(s):  
Peter Kapitza

Cambridge and the Cavendish

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger H. Stuewer
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Cavendish Laboratory ◽  
Research School ◽  
Experimental Physics ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Peter Kapitza ◽  
The University

J.J. Thomson was elected Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge in 1884, and after new degree regulations were instituted in 1895, he led the Cavendish Laboratory to become the leading research school in experimental physics in the world. He relinquished the Cavendish Professorship in 1919 to become Master of Trinity College and was succeeded by his first research student, Ernest Rutherford, who led the Cavendish to become the leading research school in nuclear physics in the world. Rutherford attracted outstanding research students, among them Englishman John Cockcroft and Russian Peter Kapitza, both of whom were perceptive observers of Rutherford’s personality, style, and methods.

Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza, 9 July 1894 - 8 April 1984

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 326-374 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Peter Kapitza

Peter Kapitza was a legendary figure both in Rutherford’s Cambridge of the 1920s and 1930s and subsequently in Moscow to the end of his long life and the legends serve to illustrate his colourful personality. In his scientific work he showed great versatility and brought the skills of an engineer and mathematician to bear on important problems in physics and technology in an entirely original way. He also had broad cultural and social interests and his original ideas on scientific education and organization have had a profound influence, particularly on the development of Soviet physics.

Peter kapitza

1980 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 651-653
Author(s):  
H. B. G. Casimir
Keyword(s):  
Peter Kapitza
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