Sergei Kapitsa was born February 14 1928 in Cambridge, where his father, a prominent physicist and future Nobel laureate Pyotr Kapitsa, was staying during his working visit to Great Britain. Sergei Kapitsas mother, nee Anna Krylova was a daughter of a famous Russian naval engineer. His godfather was famous physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (State University of Aerospace Technology) and in 1961 was granted a Ph.D in physics and mathematics. He was the head of the Chair of Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) for 35 years. For 30 years, Kapitsa edited the Russian edition of Scientific American World of Science-which brought up several generations of Russian scientists. In recent years, he studied the problems of the information society, globalization and demography. For 40 years, he hosted the popular TV programme The Obvious and the Unbelievable which was first broadcast by Central TV on the 24th of February 1973. Kapitsa is in the Guinness Book of Records as the host of the longest-term TV programme. In recent years, the programme was shown by the Kultura channel. Kapitsa was a pioneer of scuba diving in the Soviet Union, he shot the first underwater film about the Sea of Japan which was shown at international film festivals, in particular in Cannes, where it was second only to the film by Jacque-Yves Cousteau. Kapitsa was a member of the European Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Sciences (Washington), the Club of Rome and other scientific societies. He was a winner of the Kalinga Prize given by UNESCO for the popularization of science, the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the popularization of science. He was a member of the Russian Internet Academy. In 2012, Kapitsa was awarded the first gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the dissemination of scientific knowledge. http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_08_14/Sergey-Kapitsa-dies-at-84/ rest in peace................
If Putin's Dictatorship survive Russia will have not only no new Kapitsas but also no new engineers, scientists etc. anymore. The occupations which Putin's Regime needs are police and prison officers, intelligence, officials, sellers of western commodities and whores.
