The Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894-1984) made notable contributions to knowledge of atomic structures and to understanding the behavior of matter in strong magnetic fields and at extremely low temperatures. Pyotr Kapitsa was born on...

Kapitza was born in Kronstadt, Russia, on July 8, 1894, the son of Russian army general. He was educated at the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute and the Petrograd Physical and Technical Institute. After graduation, he taught for two years (1919-1921)...

Pyotr Kapitsa was a Russian physicist who directed the Mond Laboratory in England and the Physical Problems Institute in the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s. He performed important research on high-density magnetic fields and high-energy...

PYOTR ROMANOV brightens at the idea that he could be Russia's Ross Perot. At 51, the director of a huge chemical plant in the once "closed" Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk is keen to display the little Texan's can-do, no-nonsense, anti-establishment populism. And he...

(SOVIET UNION -- 1935) A Moskinokombianat (Moscow) production. Directed by Aleksandr Macheret. Screenplay, Lev Slavin. Camera (B&W) Aleksei Utkin; music, L. Knipper; art director, Aleksandr Utkin. Reviewed at Locarno Film Festival (Soviet retro), Aug. 7, 2000. Original title: Chastnaya zhizn Petra Vinogradova....