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Pyotor L. Kapitza. a noted Soviet physicist and outspoken critic of political orthodoxy, has begun a three-day visit to Harvard. He will deliver a lecture on "The Education of Scientists in the Soviet Union" at 4:45 p.m. today at the Loeb...
...Cambridge University, he developed techniques for liquefying helium and producing strong magnetic fields, and in 1929 became the first non-Briton to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's top scientific body. But during a visit to Moscow in 1934, Kapitza was detained, reportedly on Stalin's orders, and placed in charge of the Institute of Physical Problems, a center for researchers in physics and mathematics...
...speech widely circulated in the West last Spring, Kapitza criticized Soviet technology for lagging behind the West's and urged Soviet ideologists to take a less rigid view of Western student political movements...
...scientist is inclined to minimize the Russian scientific achievement. It is possible that the Russians have built by persistence and enormous effort a single rather poor bomb. But they have world-renowned physicists, such as Peter Kapitza, and probably many other first-rate men. So it is also quite possible that they have large, fairly efficient plants capable of producing many excellent bombs...
...Britain plagued by blizzards, floods and landslides,* the Army asked the House of Commons for a sizable budget. Heavy snow in Eire curtailed the export of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. In Naples, striking bakers raided the University library and burned books. In Moscow, Atomic Scientist Peter Kapitza, variously reported purged or resting, emerged to publish a learned paper entitled: "Theoretical and Empirical Expressions for Heat Transfers in a Turbulent Stream...