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...National Academy of Sciences added a "foreign associate" to its goodly company: Russian physicist Peter Kapitza, Hero of Socialist Labor. He was worthy of the honor. Besides a monster string of Soviet decorations, he held medals from Belgium, Britain, and the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia...
...told Scientist Peter Kapitza to "build whatever you need" for basic atomic research...
...such a race, Russia would depend largely on two scientists: big, bulky Abram Feodorovitch Joffe, distinguished for work in electronics and molecular physics; and Dr. Peter Kapitza, who visited Moscow in 1935, after 13 years at Britain's Cambridge, and was refused permission to leave when he made ready to return. Tweedy, pipe-smoking Peter Kapitza has been there ever since, and he said he was perfectly happy when Dr. Langmuir saw him in Moscow last June...
Last week Moscow's Izvestia lifted the recent blackout on Dr. Kapitza, said, that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...
Furthermore, the Soviets play up the prestige of their scientists, and provide them with the material comforts of the good life. Kapitza, for example, has a country dacha and two chauffeurs; he said that if he wanted a house in the mountains the Government would gladly build...