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Andrey Petrovich Kapitsa (Russian: Андре́й Петро́вич Капи́ца; 9 July 1931 – 2 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica. He was a member of the Kapitsa family, a scientific dynasty in Russia.
8 de abr. de 2011 · Renowned Russian Geographer Andrey Kapitsa Passes Away at 80. 04.08.2011. Andrey Kapitsa was born on July 9th 1931 in Cambridge, U.K. The scientist’s whole life was inextricably linked to first Soviet and then Russian geographical science, the Russian Geographical Society reports.
26 de ago. de 2011 · Andrei Kapitsa, who died on August 2 aged 80, was a Russian geographer who discovered Lake Vostok, one of the world’s largest fresh water lakes. Five hundred metres deep, with a surface area of ...
But, a real breakthrough in the study of Antarctica's underground lakes was achieved in 1996 by Russian researchers Andrey Kapitsa and Igor Zotikov from the Russian Academy of Sciences...
29 de abr. de 2014 · Andrey Kapitsa, the Russian geographer best known for his part in the discovery of Lake Vostok in Antarctica, has died in Moscow at the age of 80. He participated in four Soviet expeditions to the South Pole during his career. Kapitsa was born to Physics Nobel Prize laureate Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa in Cambridge, England in 1931.
4 de sept. de 2011 · Andrei Kapitsa was a Russian geographer who discovered Lake Vostok, one of the world's largest freshwater lakes. Five hundred metres deep, with a surface area of 14,000 square kilometres - the size of Lake Ontario - the lake had gone undiscovered for so long because it lies some 4000 metres below the ice cap of Antarctica. Breaking the waves …
Andrey Petrovich Андре́й Петро́вич Kapitsa (Капи́ца) (9 Jul 1931 - 2 Aug 2011)
