Sergei Kapitsa

Sergei Kapitsa

Infobox Scientist
name = Sergei Kapitsa ( _ru. Сергей Петрович Капица)
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birth_date = February 14, 1928
birth_place = Cambridge, England flagicon|England
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citizenship = Russia flagicon|Russia
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field = physics, demography
work_institutions = Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, RAS and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
alma_mater = Moscow Aviation Institute
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known_for = TV science magazine host since 1973
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prizes = UNSESCO's Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, 1979 and USSR State Prize, 1980
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Sergei Kapitsa is a Russian physisist and demographer. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian Television science magazine. Son of Pyotr Kapitsa.

Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1949. Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Physical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

He has made substantial contributions both to Physics and Historical Demography (where he developed a number of mathematical models of the World System population hyperbolic growth and the global demographic transition).


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