Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.
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).
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares specialists in theoretical and applied physics, applied mathematics and related disciplines.
A view of the MIPT campus and the city of Dolgoprudny from the Applied Mathematics Building
MIPT campus before renovation