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Kapitza’s Crocodile Marker at Cambridge Lab Echoes a Migrant Scientist
Cambridge recalls Dr. Peter Kapitza, the Russian scientist who designed Sputnik, as an eight foot crocodile in the Mond Physics lab brickwork stands as a memorial. He spent 14 years at the university, cited for genius and unsettled loyalties before fleeing to Moscow in 1934.
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England
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Cambridge University
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Peter Kapitza
Mond Physics Laboratory
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David Shoenberg
Mond Laboratory
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Ernest Rutherford
Soviet Union