Sergey Kapitsa
Sergey Kapitsa | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 February 1928 |
| Died | 14 August 2012 (aged 84) |
| Citizenship | Soviet, Russian, British |
| Alma mater | Moscow Aviation Institute |
| Known for | TV science magazine host since 1973 |
| Awards | UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, 1979 and USSR State Prize, 1980 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, demography |
| Institutions | Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, RAS and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (Russian: Сергей Петрович Капица; 14 February 1928 – 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father was the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa.