Pyotr Kapitsa
1894 CE–1984 CE · Kronstadt
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица; Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 26 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984), also known as Peter Kapitza, was a Russian and Soviet physicist, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
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- James Chadwick· 1891 CE–1974 CE
- Louis de Broglie· 1892 CE–1987 CE
- Harold Urey· 1893 CE–1981 CE
- Satyendra Nath Bose· 1894 CE–1974 CE
- John Cockcroft· 1897 CE–1967 CE
- Howard Florey· 1898 CE–1968 CE
- Leo Szilard· 1898 CE–1964 CE
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin· 1900 CE–1979 CE
- Werner Heisenberg· 1901 CE–1976 CE
- Paul Dirac· 1902 CE–1984 CE
- Barbara McClintock· 1902 CE–1992 CE
- Andrey Kolmogorov· 1903 CE–1987 CE
- George Gamow· 1904 CE–1968 CE
- J. Robert Oppenheimer· 1904 CE–1967 CE
- Emilio Segrè· 1905 CE–1989 CE
- Kurt Gödel· 1906 CE–1978 CE
- Ernst Chain· 1906 CE–1979 CE
- Hideki Yukawa· 1907 CE–1981 CE
- Lev Landau· 1908 CE–1968 CE
- Homi J. Bhabha· 1909 CE–1966 CE
- Wernher von Braun· 1912 CE–1977 CE
- Alan Turing· 1912 CE–1954 CE
- Vikram Sarabhai· 1919 CE–1971 CE
- Rosalind Franklin· 1920 CE–1958 CE
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- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Jomo Kenyatta· 1894 CE–1978 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
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