Why some narrow-minded people disliked Sergei Kapitsa and how it almost cost him his life Bashny.Net

February 14, 1928 was born an outstanding Russian scientist Kapitsa Sergey Petrovich. His father was Nobel laureate Peter Kapitsa, and his grandfather was a mathematician and shipbuilder. Sergey Petrovich was born in Cambridge when his father was on a business trip. In 1934, Peter Leonidovich Kapitsa, who often traveled to England from the USSR, last returned from such a business trip and could not leave for England.



instagram.com Kapitsa Sergey Petrovich In 1935, the entire family of Peter Kapitsa was forced to move to Moscow. Here Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Then the young man began to conduct scientific activity since 1949, engaged in various fields of physics: earth magnetism, applied electrodynamics, elementary particle physics. Later, Sergey Kapitsa began teaching at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The physicist became a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, in 1965 he was awarded the title of professor of MIPT.

Sergey Petrovich was a talented teacher. He was the first to cancel exam tickets and allow students to use notes because he believed that students should not just know the material, but understand it. Thanks to Kapitsa Sergey Petrovich, under Mikhail Gorbachev, students were no longer drafted into the army, since interruption of training prevented them from becoming good specialists. Sergey Petrovich fought for the rights of Soviet students and insisted on increasing the allowance for students.



In 1973, the scientist published a book “The Life of Science”. The book became a prerequisite for the appearance of the TV program “Obvious – incredible”, in which from 1973 to 2012 Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa was an invariable host. In the program, which was shown on Saturdays in the daytime, Sergey Kapitsa spoke about science, technology and new inventions of mankind. Sergey Kapitsa invited scientists who covered not only science, but also touched upon the cultural and psychological aspects of scientific and technological progress. In 1980, Sergey Kapitsa was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.



In 1986 there was a monstrous event in the life of Sergei Petrovich: at the institute where he taught a physicist, he was attacked by a member of the society “Memory” with a tourist axe in his hands. The criminal entered the institute and attacked Sergei Petrovich as he was leaving the audience. The attacker struck the scientist two blows. Sergey Petrovich was able to snatch the weapon from the assailant’s hands and hit him on the head with a butt. He then reached the pulpit and asked for an ambulance. Sergei Petrovich immediately lost consciousness. The criminal was detained, and the scientist was put 17 stitches. Fortunately, Sergey Kapitsa was able to recover and return to work.



instagram.com It is interesting how Sergey Kapitsa told about what happened himself. In a battle with a criminal who wanted to take his life, the physicist managed to remain human. Sergei Petrovich did not want to hurt: “There was no pain.” I turned around and realized someone was hitting me in the head with an axe. Something exploded in me, some primitive instincts. I don’t remember anything, only a few seconds later I woke up on top of it and the axe was in my hands.

The split second solution It was a small tourist axe, but very sharp. The guy underneath me is floundering and I feel like he's very strong. I waved and realized that it was not pedagogical to take a person’s life in front of students. In a split second, I had to decide where to hit. I couldn't let him go. I decide to hit the eyes, but that terrible blow, I would mutilate a person and take his life, I could not live with it.



Instagram.com So I decided to hit my teeth. At the time, my wife was putting her teeth in, and I knew how expensive it was. Then I turned over the axe and hit the guy hard on the forehead with a butt. Then he got up and told the students that this man was dangerous and that they should look after him, and he went to the pulpit. My assistant Natalia Ivanovna remembered for a long time what horror she experienced when I entered the pulpit. I asked to call the police and an ambulance, and then I don’t remember anything.”



Life Wisdom and Editorial Board Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa left us on the 85th year of life from liver cancer in Moscow on August 14, 2012. Sergey Kapitsa was an amazing person, his phrases about life, education, the structure of the world were scattered into quotes. He said you don’t have to believe in God to live according to your conscience, and he kept that rule all his life.