3437 Kapitsa
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3437 Kapitsa is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 20, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named in honor of the Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa
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Asteroid belt
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Asteroid
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discovered on October 20, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named in honor of the Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa
Pyotr Kapitsa
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a prominent Soviet/Russian physicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Kapitsa was born in the city of Kronstadt and graduated from the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1918. He worked for over ten years with Ernest Rutherford in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge...
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