Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It trains specialists in theoretical and applied physics, applied mathematics and related d
A view of the MIPT campus and the city of Dolgoprudny from the Applied Mathematics Building
MIPT campus before renovation
The four oldest residence halls are across the street from the academic buildings.
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, 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.
Kapitsa in the 1930s
Kapitsa, standing leftmost with Professor Abram Ioffe (seated fourth from left) in 1915
Kapitsa (left) and Nikolay Semyonov, the physics and chemistry Nobel laureates (portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921).