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The son of the Nobel Prize laureate Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and the godson of the Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Sergei Kapitsa was included in the Guinness Book of Records as a TV presenter with the longest experience of running a program. Since 1973, he has continuously hosted the popular science TV program "Obvious-Incredible". As a scientist,thinker and educator, he left us a lot of interesting and vivid statements.

If, instead of the billions spent on the military, there were millions for education and health care, there would be no room for terrorism.

For a long time history was an "adjective science" - it was "applied" to the point of view of one or another ruler.

If you subordinate everything to money, then everything will remain with money, it will not turn into either a masterpiece or a discovery.

Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is now in the hands of those who are completely irresponsible about their role in society.

What will remain after the current generation? Will their SMS be published for the edification of descendants?

Culture must be implanted! Even by force. Otherwise, we will all fail.

Mathematics is what Russians teach Chinese in American universities.

I am a Russian Orthodox atheist.

A modern experimental physicist needs about a million a year - for instruments, for the entire infrastructure that ensures his research. Yes, this is an expensive pleasure, but a boutique on Gorky Street costs more.

Leadership means not getting in the way of good people working.

Not a computer can bring a person, but the Internet. The remarkable Russian psychologist Alexei Leontiev said in 1965: "An excess of information leads to the impoverishment of the soul." These words must be written on every site.

Take a look at those same computers. They have, roughly speaking, hardware and software. Software costs 10-20 times more expensive than hardware, because it is much harder to create a product of intellectual work. So it is with humanity. "Iron" - energy, weapons - we have as much as necessary. And software - call it cultural potential - lags behind.

It is time for the good and important not only to create, but also to actively implement. After all, the same commandment "Thou shalt not kill!" self-explanatory - it requires execution.

Scientist-physicist Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa needs no special introduction. From 1973 to 2012, he remained the permanent host of the popular science TV program "The Obvious Is Incredible" and argued that science can be entertaining and interesting.

Remaining the editor-in-chief of the journal "In the world of science" and vice-president of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Sergei Kapitsa for many years talked about science, technology and culture in a way that was understandable and interesting to everyone.

And to this day, his vivid quotes and thoughts are more relevant than ever:

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa - Born on February 14, 1928, Cambridge, England (from 1935 he lived in the USSR). Soviet and Russian physicist, TV presenter, editor-in-chief of the magazine "In the world of science". Since 1973, he has continuously hosted the popular science TV program "Obvious - Incredible". Died - August 14, 2012, Moscow.

Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - S.P. Kapitsa

• Russia is being turned into a country of fools.
• Before you act, you need to understand.
• Life is not guided by logic, but by emotion.
• Television is engaged in the decomposition of the consciousness of people.
• The lack of competent management hurts science.
• Not understanding certain things does not mean that God exists.
• Leading is about not getting in the way of good people working.
• Culture must be implanted! Even by force. Otherwise, we will all fail.
• It is easy to make a herd of Rams, it is difficult to make a herd of Cats.
• The Internet will change the contours of intellectual property rights.
• 50 years ago, there were as many bicycles on the ruble as there are now cars.
• Mathematics is what Russians teach Chinese in American universities.
• Only contradiction stimulates the development of science. It should be emphasized, not gloss over.
• And what will remain after the current generation? Will their text messages be published for the edification of descendants?
• In a woman, vulgarity can repel. sometimes it also attracts, so go figure it out.
• Money is not the goal of the existence of society, but only a means of achieving certain goals.
• What is my main disagreement with the church? I say that it was the man of God who invented, and they are the other way around.
• If everything is subordinated to money, then everything will remain with money, it will not turn into either a masterpiece or a discovery.
• For a long time history was an "adjective science" - it was "applied" to the point of view of this or that ruler.
• Major figures do not let people close to them. Richter would not let him. Father too. They valued themselves and their time.
• I have everything I need - I have a dacha on Nikolina Gora, an apartment in Moscow, a car and a computer. Nothing else is needed except ideas.
• Television, this is the most powerful means of interaction between people, is now in the hands of those who are completely irresponsible about their role in society.
• Some are afraid that, having lost God, we will lose the remnants of conscience. I don't see any contradictions here. I think you can live according to your conscience and still not believe in God.
• If, instead of the billions spent on the military, there were millions for education and health care, there would be no room for terrorism.
• The suit disciplines the man, organizes internally. Once upon a time, BBC radio broadcasters read the news in tuxedos and evening gowns, although the listeners did not see them.
• Moscow, despite many things that annoy me, is still my city. You need to be able to filter it all out. Every person should have filters - from spam.
• We deprive the poorest strata of the population by the fact that they do not have access to the Internet, we deprive them of information, thereby driving them into even greater poverty. Everyone should have access to the Internet.
• Women used to dress more boringly. Now there is a colossal range: from monstrous bad taste to very decently dressed people. But for some reason you notice the second much less often than before.
• Attempts to formalize the greatest achievements of science as someone's discoveries are just a way to satisfy the pride of their authors. In fact, these achievements belong to humanity as a whole.
• If you portray a smart guy in front of people, talk to them in some foreign language - they will not forgive you for this. If you talk to people seriously and they do not understand, they will forgive you.
• Not a computer can bring a person, but the Internet. The remarkable Russian psychologist Alexei Leontiev said in 1965: "An excess of information leads to the impoverishment of the soul." These words must be written on every site.
• A modern experimental physicist needs about a million a year - for instruments, for the entire infrastructure that ensures his research. Yes, this is an expensive pleasure, but a boutique on Gorky Street costs more.
• I knew Akunin when he was still the scientific secretary of our editorial board of the Pushkin Library, which published a hundred volumes of Russian literature. What attracts me to his detective stories is that his detective, as a statesman, has responsibility for the assigned case, for the interests of the country. Responsibility is a concept that has practically disappeared now.
• Nowhere have I seen more persecuted men than in America. They are in a terrible state, aggressive feminism finishes them. I remember that in Boston, at the institute, one venerable teacher, a Russian mathematician, was walking down the corridor, and some secretary was carrying printers. He opened the door for her, and she accused him of sexual harassment, although he had an instinctive movement: a woman was dragging a heavy piece of iron. There was a public scandal and he had to leave the institute.
  

Petr Kapitsa

Peter Kapitsa is a world-renowned scientist. Rutherford's favorite student, one of the founders of low-temperature physics and physics of strong magnetic fields, a Nobel laureate who was called somehow the "Russian atomic tsar", and today he would probably also be dubbed "the genius of the military-industrial complex." Winner of many awards - (he had six Orders of Lenin alone), initiator of the creation and almost permanent director of the Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

This man had one weakness - he loved to express himself in letters that he wrote from childhood to everyone: relatives, beloved women, colleagues. When it became necessary, he decided to address his messages to the authorities. Petr Kapitsa wrote and sent 300 letters to the Kremlin, 50 of which to Stalin personally, trying to protect the scientists.

In his later years, Kapitsa, who was never a member of the Communist Party, used all his authority to criticize the tendency in the Soviet Union to make judgments on scientific issues on the basis of unscientific grounds. He opposed the construction of a pulp and paper mill, which threatened to pollute Lake Baikal with its waste waters. Together with Andrei Sakharov and other representatives of the intelligentsia, he signed a letter of protest against the forced confinement of biologist Zhores Medvedev in a psychiatric hospital. In 1973, contrary to the persistent persuasion of the President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR M.V. Keldysh, refuses to put his signature on a letter stigmatizing Andrei Sakharov. On August 29 this letter, signed by 40 academicians, is published by Pravda. Kapitsa was a member of the Soviet Committee of the Pugwash Movement for Peace and Disarmament. The initiator of this movement was Albert Einstein (winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921). The first conference was held in the Canadian city of Puguosh in 1957. He also made several proposals on ways to overcome the alienation between the Soviet and American sciences. On May 5, 1976, 10 years before Chernobyl, in the report "Global problems and energy", read at Stockholm University, warns of the impending danger. Having told about the accident at the American nuclear power plant "Browns Ferry", he notes: ". He is trying to publish this report in the journal "Science and Life", which then had a circulation of three million. The editors reject the article, explaining their refusal by their unwillingness to "frighten people." Refuses to publish the report and the Swedish magazine Ambio, citing lack of funds for translation from Russian into English. All the materials about the accident at Browns Ferry, which Kapitsa receives from friends of American physicists, he immediately transfers to the President of the Academy of Sciences and Director of the Institute of Atomic Energy A.P. Alexandrov.

Kapitsa was awarded many awards and honorary titles both in his homeland and in many countries of the world. He was an honorary doctor of eleven universities on four continents, was a member of many scientific societies, the academy of the United States of America, the Soviet Union and most European countries, was the owner of numerous awards and prizes for his scientific and political activities, including seven Orders of Lenin.

Petr Kapitsa - a life devoted to science

Soviet physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was born in Kronstadt, a naval fortress located on an island in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg, where his father Leonid Petrovich Kapitsa, a lieutenant general of the engineering corps, served. P. Kapitsa's mother Olga Ieronimovna Kapitsa, nee Stebnitskaya, was a famous teacher and collector of folklore. After graduating from the gymnasium in Kronstadt, in 1912, Kapitsa entered the electromechanical faculty of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute.

In the summer of 1913, he traveled with his brother Leonid, a student of the Faculty of Geography of St. Petersburg University, to the North - they visited Arkhangelsk, the Solovetsky Islands, the coast of the Barents Sea. In fishing villages, the brothers conduct an anthropological study of the Pomors, collect ethnographic material and study the production of fish oil. The illustrated magazine "Argus" publishes the article "Fish oil". On June 8, 1916, he went to China for his fiancée Nadezhda Kirillovna Chernosvitova, who lived in Shanghai, in the family of a brother, an employee of the Russian-Asian Bank. They got married on August 6. In the "Journal of the Russian Physicochemical Society" Kapitsa publishes his first scientific works "Inertia of electrons in ampere molecular currents" and "Preparation of Wollaston filaments". On July 5, 1917, his son Jerome is born. In September 1918, Pyotr Kapitsa graduated from the institute and received the title of electrical engineer.

For the next three years he taught at the same institute. Under the leadership of A.F. Ioffe, who was the first in Russia to start research in the field of atomic physics, Pyotr Kapitsa, together with his classmate Nikolai Semenov, developed a method for measuring the magnetic moment of an atom in an inhomogeneous magnetic field, which was improved in 1921 by Otto Stern.

In the winter of 1920, during the Spanish flu epidemic, he lost his father, son, wife and newborn daughter within a month.

On May 22, 1921, Pyotr Kapitsa arrived in England as a member of the commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sent to the countries of Western Europe to restore scientific ties, ruined by the war and revolution, and to acquire instruments and scientific literature. In July, together with A.F. Joffe visits Ernst Rutherford in Cambridge and asks to be admitted to the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge for an internship. On July 22, he starts work. Kapitsa quickly won Rutherford's respect and became his friend. Rutherford had a great influence on him and Kapitsa borrowed many sayings from his master: “Science is a big science - has always moved and will continue to move technical thought”, “What is the difference between theory and experiment? The experiment remains forever "," Do not serve God and mammon ", etc.

The first studies carried out by Kapitza in Cambridge were devoted to the deflection of alpha and beta particles emitted by radioactive nuclei in a magnetic field. The creation of unique equipment for measuring temperature effects associated with the influence of strong magnetic fields on the properties of a substance, for example, on magnetic resistance, led Kapitsa to study the problems of low-temperature physics. The pinnacle of his creativity in this area was the creation in 1934 of an unusually productive plant for the liquefaction of helium.

In Cambridge, Kapitsa's scientific authority grew rapidly. He successfully moved up the steps of the academic hierarchy. On October 17, 1922, the first meeting of the physics seminar he created in Cambridge, which was later called the "Kapitsa Club", took place. In 1923 Kapitsa became a Doctor of Philosophy and received the prestigious James Clerk Maxwell Fellowship. In 1924 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Cavendish Laboratory for Magnetic Research, and in 1925 he became a member of Trinity College. In 1928 the Academy of Sciences of the USSR awarded Kapitza the academic degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics and in 1929 elected him as its Corresponding Member. The following year, Peter Kapitsa becomes a research professor at the Royal Society of London. At the insistence of Rutherford, the Royal Society is building a new laboratory especially for Kapitza. The Mond laboratory was opened on February 3, 1933.

On April 28, 1927, Kapitsa marries in Paris Anna Alekseevna Krylova, daughter of the famous shipbuilder Academician A.N. Krylov. In 1919 she emigrated from Russia with her mother. On June 22, 1927, by a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Anna Alekseevna received Soviet citizenship. On February 14, 1928, his son Sergei, who became a physicist, was born.

On July 9, 1931, a son, Andrei, is born to Pyotr Kapitsa. Andrey became a famous publicist and geographer. He is a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1970 and the RAS since 1991, a member of four Antarctic expeditions, the head of the Academy of Sciences' geophysical expedition to East Africa (1967-69). He wrote works on the dynamics and morphology of the East Antarctic ice sheet. Received the USSR State Prize in 1971.

Soviet officials have repeatedly appealed to Pyotr Leonidovich with a request to stay permanently in the USSR. Kapitsa was interested in such proposals, but set certain conditions, in particular, freedom of travel to the West, because of which the resolution of the issue was postponed. At the end of the summer of 1934, Kapitsa and his wife once again came to the Soviet Union, but when the couple prepared to return to England, it turned out that their exit visas had been canceled. After a furious but useless skirmish with officials in Moscow, Kapitsa was forced to stay in his homeland, and his wife was allowed to return to England to her children. A little later, Anna Alekseevna joined her husband in Moscow, and the children followed her. Rutherford and other friends of Kapitsa appealed to the Soviet government with a request to allow him to leave to continue working in England, but in vain.

On January 1, 1935, Kapitsa became director of the newly created Institute of Physical Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences, but before giving his consent, Kapitsa refused the proposed post for almost a year. Rutherford, resigned to the loss of his outstanding employee, allowed the Soviet authorities to buy equipment from Mond's laboratory and send it by sea to the USSR. Negotiations, transportation of equipment and installation at the Institute of Physical Problems took several years. In 1937, the physics seminar of P.L. Kapitsa - "Kapichnik", as they began to call him later, when from a purely institute he turns into an all-Moscow and even all-Union.

Kapitsa resumes his research in the physics of low temperatures, including the properties of liquid helium.

In 1937 he wrote to Stalin in defense of the theoretical physicist Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, who had been arrested the day before in Leningrad. Fock was released a few days later. On April 6, 1938, he wrote to Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov and on April 28 to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in defense of Lev Landau, who was arrested on charges of espionage for Nazi Germany, head of the theoretical department of the Institute for Physical Problems. On April 28, Landau was released. To do this, Kapitsa had to go to the Kremlin and threaten, if he refuses, to resign from the post of director of the institute. In his reports to the government plenipotentiary, Kapitsa openly criticized those decisions that he considered wrong.

In 1941, Kapitsa was awarded the 1st degree Stalin Prize for his work "Turbo expander for obtaining low temperatures and its use for liquefying air." On July 23, the Institute for Physical Problems was evacuated to Kazan. In October, he caught the attention of the public by issuing a warning about the possibility of an atomic bomb. Perhaps he was the first physicist to make such a statement. On March 22, 1943, he was awarded another Stalin Prize, 1st degree, for the discovery and research of the phenomenon of superfluidity of liquid helium. In August, the re-evacuation of the Institute for Physical Problems to Moscow is completed.

On April 30, 1945, Kapitsa was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor "for the successful scientific development of a new turbine method for producing oxygen" and for the creation of a powerful turbine-oxygen plant for the production of liquid oxygen.

On August 20, 1945, by a resolution of the State Defense Committee, a Special Committee was created to manage "all work on the use of the intra-atomic energy of uranium." In the initial composition of the committee there are only two physicists - Pyotr Kapitsa and Igor Kurchatov. Referring to the conflict with the chairman of the Special Committee Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Kapitsa, in letters to Stalin dated October 3 and November 25, asks to be relieved of his work on the committee. On December 21, his request is granted.

From 1947 to 1949 he was the head of the Department of General Physics of the Physics and Technology Faculty of Moscow State University, of which he was one of the founders. In 1951. this faculty was reorganized into the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (the well-known Phystech). Alternately with Lev Davidovich Landau, he reads a course in general physics.

On January 28, 1955, he was reinstated as director of the Institute for Physical Problems and remained in this position until the end of his life. On June 3, he became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics.

In 1969, Kapitsa and his wife made their first trip to the United States. Kapitsa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 "for fundamental inventions and discoveries in the field of low temperature physics." He shared his award with Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson. Introducing the laureates, Lamek Hulten from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences remarked: "Kapitsa appears before us as one of the greatest experimenters of our time, an undeniable pioneer, leader and master in his field."

Pyotr Kapitsa died in Moscow on April 8, 1984, three months before his ninetieth birthday. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

50 years ago, there were as many bicycles on the ruble as there are now cars.

The Internet will change the contours of intellectual property rights.

(the Internet)

I have everything I need - I have a dacha on Nikolina Gora, an apartment in Moscow, a car and a computer. Nothing else is needed except ideas.

The lack of competent management hurts science.

Not understanding certain things does not mean that God exists.

(The God)

And what will remain after the current generation? Will their text messages be published for the edification of descendants?

Mathematics is what Russians teach Chinese in American universities.

(maths)

A modern experimental physicist needs about a million a year - for instruments, for the entire infrastructure that ensures his research. Yes, this is an expensive pleasure, but a boutique on Gorky Street costs more.

The suit disciplines the man, organizes internally. Once upon a time, BBC radio broadcasters read the news in tuxedos and evening gowns, although the listeners did not see them.

Money is not the goal of the existence of society, but only a means of achieving certain goals.

Culture must be implanted! Even by force. Otherwise, we will all fail.

Before you act, you need to understand.

If you portray a smart guy in front of people, talk to them in some foreign language - they will not forgive you for this. If you talk to people seriously and they do not understand, they will forgive you.

Television, this is the most powerful means of interaction between people, is now in the hands of those who are completely irresponsible about their role in society.

In a woman, vulgarity can repel. Sometimes she also attracts, so go figure it out.

Major figures do not let people close to them. Richter would not let him. Father too. They valued themselves and their time.

Moscow, despite many things that annoy me, is still my city. You need to be able to filter it all out. Every person should have filters - from spam.

I knew Akunin when he was still the scientific secretary of our editorial board of the Pushkin Library, which published a hundred volumes of Russian literature. What attracts me to his detective stories is that his detective, as a statesman, has responsibility for the assigned case, for the interests of the country. Responsibility is a concept that has practically disappeared now.

Attempts to formalize the greatest achievements of science as someone's discoveries are just a way to satisfy the pride of their authors. In fact, these achievements belong to humanity as a whole.