Sergei Petrovich Kapitsa
Sergei Petrovich Kapiza ( Russian Серге́й Петро́вич Капи́ца , scientific transliteration Sergej Petrovič Kapica ; born February 14, 1928 in Cambridge , England , Great Britain ; † August 14, 2012 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Soviet- Russian physicist and television presenter .
Life
Sergei Kapiza came from a prominent family of scientists. He was the son of the Nobel Prize laureate Pyotr Kapiza , his maternal grandfather was the mathematician Alexei Krylov . His younger brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrei Kapiza .
Sergei Kapiza grew up in Cambridge, England in the 1930s before his parents moved with him to Moscow. He became a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and worked at the Kapitsa Institute for Physical Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences, named after his father . In Russia he moderated the popular science television program "The obvious is the unbelievable" (also "Apparently, but hardly to believe!", Russian Очевидное - невероятное ) from 1973 until his death . This makes him the television presenter with the world's longest broadcast time and made it into the Guinness Book of Records .
He became a participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs , a member of the Council for Culture and Art of the President of the Russian Federation, and the Club of Rome . From 1977 to 1982 he was Vice President of the European Physical Society . From 1983 until the temporary cessation of printing in 1993 and from 2002 until his death, he was editor of W mire nauki , the Russian edition of Scientific American . In his later academic career he devoted himself increasingly to the problems of demographics and global population growth.
Sergei Kapiza had been married since 1949 and had three children.
Honors
- 1980: State Prize of the Soviet Union
- 1981: Kalinga Prize of UNESCO
- Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his television broadcast
Memberships
- Academia Europaea
- Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- Club of Rome
- European Physical Society
- Euro-Asian Physical Society
- International Aeronautical Federation
Quotes
“Like a radio, the market or money, democracy is nothing more than an instrument. You alone do not bring happiness. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ras.ru: Капица Сергей Петрович (Russian)
- ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Research in the East: "Bill Gates will get rich at Russia's expense" , February 25, 2008.
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SURNAME | Kapiza, Sergei Petrovich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet or Russian physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1928 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge , UK |
DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 2012 |
Place of death | Moscow |