Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics.” Whereas Kapitsa had actually left the field of low-temperature physics about 30 years prior, he chose the Nobel lecture platform to discuss his then current research in “plasma phenomena at those very high temperatures that are necessary for the thermonuclear reaction to take place.”
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