Kapitsa Sergey

Kapitsa Sergey

Sergey Kapitsa – a legend not only the Russian science, but also the outstanding personality famous in the world. Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, chief researcher of Institute of physical problems of P.L. Kapitsa, professor, author of four books, tens of articles, 14 inventions and one opening. Creator of a phenomenological mathematical model of hyperbolic growth of population of Earth.

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa was born on February 14, 1928 in Cambridge (Great Britain) where there was in a scientific business trip his father – the outstanding physicist, future Nobel Prize laureate Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa. Sergey Petrovich's mother is Anna Alekseevna Krylova, the daughter of the famous ship builder Alexey Krylov. The great physiologist Ivan Pavlov was the godfather of Sergey Petrovich.

In 1935 the family returned to Moscow. Sergey Petrovich graduated at the Moscow Aviation Institute and actively pursued science. In 1961 it protected a rank of the doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.

Later worked at the Central aero hydrodynamic institute, then at Institute of geophysics, at Institute of physical problems of P.L. Kapitsa of RAS. Within 35 years managed the department of physics, largest in the country, in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa headed more than three decades the Scientific America magazine on which several generations of scientists grew. In the last years of life actively studied problems of information society, globalization, demography. As a result of the scientific researches tens of articles in which the model of hyperbolic growth of the population of Earth is proved are written to them.

Nearly four decades he was the leader of TV program "Obvious – improbable" which for the first time aired on February 24, 1973. Kapitsa is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the TV host having the longest experience of maintaining the program.

Sergey Kapitsa one of the first practiced scuba diving in the Soviet Union. Its underwater movie about the Sea of Japan with success was shown at the international Film Festivals, including in Cannes, having been inferior only to the movie by Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

In February, 2012 Kapitsa became the first winner of a gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the field of promotion of scientific knowledge. Among Kapitsa's awards there are an order "For Merit to the Fatherland", Order of Honour, the State award of the USSR and the award "TEFI".

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa died on August 14, 2012 in Moscow, on the 85th year of life.