Prof. Dr. Pyotr Kapitsa

Nationality Russian Federation

Institution Academy of Sciences Moscow

Award 1978

Discipline Physics

Co-recipients Arno Penzias, Robert W. Wilson

Motivation"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics."

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