Which Happened First?

Sergey Kapitsa

Sergey Kapitsa
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Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa 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.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Alexei AbrikosovJune 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017
  2. Elias James CoreyJuly 12, 1928 – present
  3. Martin DavisMarch 8, 1928 – January 1, 2023
  4. Osamu ShimomuraAugust 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018
  5. Robert BroutJune 14, 1928 – May 3, 2011
  6. Sergey Kapitsa (this page)February 14, 1928 – August 14, 2012

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