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Pyotr Kapitsa, the Glossary

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Пётр Леонидович Капица, Petre Capița; – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.^[1]

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People from Kronstadt
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Superfluidity

Abram Ioffe

Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (p; – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Soviet physicist. Pyotr Kapitsa and Abram Ioffe are Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Inventors from the Russian Empire, physicists from the Russian Empire, Recipients of the Stalin Prize and Soviet physicists.

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Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991.

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Adiabatic process

An adiabatic process (adiabatic) is a type of thermodynamic process that occurs without transferring heat or mass between the thermodynamic system and its environment.

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Aleksey Krylov

Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov (Алексе́й Никола́евич Крыло́в; – October 26, 1945) was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist. Pyotr Kapitsa and Aleksey Krylov are Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Heroes of Socialist Labour, Inventors from the Russian Empire and Recipients of the Stalin Prize.

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Andrey Kapitsa

Andrey Petrovich Kapitsa (Андре́й Петро́вич Капи́ца; 9 July 1931 – 2 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica. Pyotr Kapitsa and Andrey Kapitsa are academic staff of Moscow State University.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias (April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. Pyotr Kapitsa and Arno Allan Penzias are Nobel laureates in Physics.

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Artem Alikhanian

Artem Alikhanian (Արտեմ Ալիխանյան, Артём Исаакович Алиханьян, 24 June 1908 – 25 February 1978) was a Soviet and Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), academic of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. Pyotr Kapitsa and Artem Alikhanian are Recipients of the Stalin Prize and Soviet physicists.

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Ball lightning

Ball lightning is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter.

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Basic oxygen steelmaking

Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOP, BOF, or OSM), also known as Linz-Donawitz steelmaking or the oxygen converter process,Brock and Elzinga, p. 50.

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Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west.

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.

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Bose–Einstein condensate

In condensed matter physics, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at very low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (−273.15 °C or −459.67 °F or 0 K).

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary (abbr.; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian.

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Cavendish Laboratory

The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences.

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Churchill Archives Centre

The Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge is one of the largest repositories in the United Kingdom for the preservation and study of modern personal papers.

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Cliodynamics

Cliodynamics is a transdisciplinary area of research that integrates cultural evolution, economic history/cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical modeling of historical processes during the longue durée, and the construction and analysis of historical databases.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Cosmic microwave background

The cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe.

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Cothenius Medal

Cothenius Medal is a medal awarded by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (known as the Leopoldina) for outstanding scientific achievement during the life of the awardee.

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Cryogenics

In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.

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David Shoenberg

David Shoenberg, (4 January 1911 – 10 March 2004) was a British physicist who worked in condensed matter physics.

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Eastern Front (World War I)

The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (Ostfront; Frontul de răsărit; Vostochny front) was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany on the other.

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Electric current

An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.

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Electromagnet

An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current.

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Pyotr Kapitsa and Ernest Rutherford are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and Recipients of Franklin Medal.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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Fluid dynamics

In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.

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Franklin Medal

The Franklin Medal was a science award presented from 1915 until 1997 by the Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was founded in 1914 by Samuel Insull. Pyotr Kapitsa and Franklin Medal are Recipients of Franklin Medal.

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German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale).

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Government of the Soviet Union

The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (translit), also known as the Year of '37 (label) and the Yezhovshchina (label), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet state.

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The Hero of Socialist Labour (Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. Pyotr Kapitsa and Hero of Socialist Labour are Heroes of Socialist Labour.

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High table

The high table is a table for the use of fellows (members of the Senior Common Room) and their guests in large university dining halls in some universities, where the students eat in the main space of the hall at the same time.

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Ice cap

In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area).

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IET Faraday Medal

The Faraday Medal is a top international medal awarded by the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (previously called the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)).

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Institute for Physical Problems

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Institute of Physics Awards

The Institute of Physics awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications.

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Interfacial thermal resistance

Interfacial thermal resistance, also known as thermal boundary resistance, or Kapitza resistance, is a measure of resistance to thermal flow at the interface between two materials.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Pyotr Kapitsa and Joseph Stalin are Heroes of Socialist Labour.

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Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Юбилейная медаль В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира Ильича Ленина») was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 5, 1969 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin.

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Kapitsa–Dirac effect

The Kapitza–Dirac effect is a quantum mechanical effect consisting of the diffraction of matter by a standing wave of light.

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Kapitza Club

The Kapitza Club was a group of physicists who met informally in the 1920s and 1930s in Cambridge, England.

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Kapitza instability

In fluid dynamics, the Kapitza instability is an instability that occurs in fluid films flowing down walls.

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Kapitza number

The Kapitza number (Ka) is a dimensionless number named after the prominent Russian physicist Pyotr Kapitsa (Peter Kapitza).

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Kapitza's pendulum

Kapitza's pendulum or Kapitza pendulum is a rigid pendulum in which the pivot point vibrates in a vertical direction, up and down.

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Kronstadt

Kronstadt (Kronshtadt) is a Russian port city in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, located on Kotlin Island, west of Saint Petersburg, near the head of the Gulf of Finland.

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Lake Vostok

Lake Vostok (ozero Vostok) is the largest of Antarctica's 675 known subglacial lakes.

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Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (p; ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War. Pyotr Kapitsa and Lavrentiy Beria are Heroes of Socialist Labour and Recipients of the Stalin Prize.

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Lev Landau

Lev Davidovich Landau (Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. Pyotr Kapitsa and Lev Landau are academic staff of Moscow State University, academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Heroes of Socialist Labour, members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Nobel laureates in Physics, Recipients of the Stalin Prize, Russian scientists, Soviet Nobel laureates, Soviet physicists and Superfluidity.

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Liquid helium

Liquid helium is a physical state of helium at very low temperatures at standard atmospheric pressures. Pyotr Kapitsa and Liquid helium are Superfluidity.

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List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1929

A list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1929.

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List of minor planets: 3001–4000

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Lomonosov Gold Medal

The Lomonosov Gold Medal (Большая золотая медаль имени М. Bol'shaya zolotaya medal' imeni M. V. Lomonosova), named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

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Loren Graham

Loren R. Graham (born June 29, 1933, in Hymera, Indiana) is an American historian of science, particularly science in Russia.

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Lyudmila Karachkina

Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Magnetic field

A magnetic field (sometimes called B-field) is a physical field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric currents, and magnetic materials.

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Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

The Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (Медаль «За оборону Москвы») was a World War II campaign medal of the Soviet Union awarded to military and civilians who had participated in the Battle of Moscow.

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Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

The Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (медаль «За доблестный труд в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг.») was a World War II civilian labour award of the Soviet Union established on June 6, 1945 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to recognise the valiant and selfless labour of Soviet citizens in the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War.

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Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

The Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (Медаль «В память 800-летия Москвы») was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on September 20, 1947 and bestowed to prominent Soviet citizens and veterans in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the first Russian reference to Moscow, dating to 1147 when Yuri Dolgorukiy called upon the prince of the Novgorod-Severski to "come to me, brother, to Moscow".

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Medal "Veteran of Labour"

The Medal "Veteran of Labour" (медаль «Ветеран труда») was a civilian labour award of the Soviet Union established on January 18, 1974, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to honour workers for many years of hard work in the national economy, sciences, culture, education, healthcare, government agencies and public organizations.

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Military Engineering-Technical University

The Saint Petersburg Military Engineering-Technical University (Nikolaevsky) (Санкт-Петербургский Военный инженерно-технический университет, VITU), previously known as the Saint Petersburg Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy, was established in 1810 under Alexander I.

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Minor planet

According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; Московский Физико-Технический институт, also known as PhysTech), is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia.

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Moscow State University

Moscow State University (MSU; Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.

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Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery (Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow.

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Order of Lenin

The Order of Lenin (Orden Lenina) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution.

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Order of the Partisan Star (Yugoslavia)

The Order of the Partisan Star (Орден партизанске звезде / Orden partizanske zvijezde, Red partizanske zvezde, Орден на партизанската ѕвезда) was a Yugoslav military decoration.

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The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (translit) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, sports, health, social and other spheres of labour activities.

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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Peter the Great St.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Quantum hydrodynamics

In condensed matter physics, quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) is most generally the study of hydrodynamic-like systems which demonstrate quantum mechanical behavior.

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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.

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Reynolds equation

In fluid mechanics (specifically lubrication theory), the Reynolds equation is a partial differential equation governing the pressure distribution of thin viscous fluid films.

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Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer who, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in 1964. Pyotr Kapitsa and Robert Woodrow Wilson are Nobel laureates in Physics.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Geographical Society

The Russian Geographical Society (Ру́сское географи́ческое о́бщество (РГО)), or RGO, is a learned society based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Sergey Kapitsa

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (Сергей Петрович Капица; 14 February 192814 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. Pyotr Kapitsa and Sergey Kapitsa are academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Soviet physicists.

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Simon Memorial Prize

The Simon Memorial Prize is an award that honors 'distinguished work in experimental or theoretical low temperature physics'.

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Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore (born 27 June 1965) is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022).

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Solid-state battery

A solid-state battery is an electrical battery that uses a solid electrolyte for ionic conductions between the electrodes, instead of the liquid or gel polymer electrolytes found in conventional batteries.

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Soviet atomic bomb project

The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Standing wave

In physics, a standing wave, also known as a stationary wave, is a wave that oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space.

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Subglacial lake

A subglacial lake is a lake that is found under a glacier, typically beneath an ice cap or ice sheet.

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Superconductivity

Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material.

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Superfluidity

Superfluidity is the characteristic property of a fluid with zero viscosity which therefore flows without any loss of kinetic energy.

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Szlachta

The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.

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Tadeusz Gajl

Tadeusz Gajl (born 1940 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-born Polish artist and graphic designer, notable for his contemporary illustrations on the coats of arms borne by the historical nobility (szlachta) of Poland.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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USSR State Prize

The USSR State Prize (Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor.

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Vladimir Fock

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok; Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Фок) (December 22, 1898 – December 27, 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Pyotr Kapitsa and Vladimir Fock are Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Russian scientists and Soviet physicists.

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Volhynia

Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) (Volynʹ, Wołyń, Volynʹ) is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between southeastern Poland, southwestern Belarus, and western Ukraine.

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Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies. Pyotr Kapitsa and Vyacheslav Molotov are Heroes of Socialist Labour.

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Wikisource

Wikisource is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Kapitsa

Also known as Kapitsa family, Kapitsa, Pyotr, P. Kapitsa, P. L. Kapitsa, Peotr Kapitsa, Peter Kapitza, Peter Leonidovich Kapitsa, Peter Leonidovich Kapitza, Petr Kapitsa, Petr Kapitza, Petr L. Kapitsa, Pêtr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Piotr Kapitza, Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza, Pjotr Kapica, Pjotr Kapitsa, Pyotr Kapitza, Pyotr L. Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Пётр Леони́дович Капи́ца.

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Niels Bohr International Gold Medal recipients

People from Kronstadt

People from Petergofsky Uyezd

People from the Russian Empire of Romanian descent

Physicists from the Russian Empire

Soviet Nobel laureates

Superfluidity

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