13 Facts About Sergey Kapitsa

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa was a Russian physicist and demographer.

Sergey Kapitsa was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible.

Sergey Kapitsa's father was the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa.

Sergey Kapitsa was baptized while back in Britain, with Ivan Pavlov serving as his godparent.

Sergey Kapitsa was Senior Research Fellow at the Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Sergey Kapitsa was active in issues of science and society through his participation in the Pugwash conferences and the Club of Rome.

Sergey Kapitsa was an advocate of planetary exploration and served on the advisory council of the Planetary Society.

In 2012, Sergey Kapitsa was awarded the first gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Sergey 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 Jacques Cousteau.

Sergey Kapitsa was the vice president of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and president of the Eurasian Physical Society, and was a strong proponent of restoring support for science in Russia.

On 14 August 2012, Sergey Kapitsa died at the age of 84 in Moscow.

Sergey Kapitsa is remembered for his role in the popularisation of science and, after forty years of hosting Evident, but Incredible, holding the record for being the longest serving host of a TV programme.

In 2008 Sergey Kapitsa signed an open letter in defense of Svetlana Bakhmina.