press release #2
Visit of Professor Kapitsa to Yerevan Physics Institute
February 13, 2009, by
invitation of YerPhI director Ashot Chilingarian, Prof. Sergei Kapitsa, the renowned
Russian physicist and educator visited Yerevan Physics Institute. Professor
Kapitsa is well known by his scientific research in area of accelerator
physics, his multiyear lecturing in Moscow Physics –Technical Institute and as presenter of the famous series of TV
programs “Evident, but incredible”. Several generations of students from all
soviet republics were attracted to science by watching his TV-programs.
Kapitsa was invited in Armenia as a guest of honor of the Armenian Branch of
the Institute of Eurasian Studies recently opened office in Yerevan. The agenda
of his presentations included introduction to Mendeleev’s life, his activities
and works. He was also participated in ceremony of delivering 10 stipendiums
named after Dmitry Mendeleev to the best Armenian students, established by the
foundation Institute of Eurasian Studies.
In YerPhI Kapitsa met with CRD students and introduced them with his new theory on
the limits of demographic growth. According to his theory, very well confirmed
by recent demographic data, the paradigm of hyperbolic growth in the end of the
last century is changed and stabilization of world population will be reached
in the middle of the current century.
Figure 1. From left to right: Prof. Sergei Kapitsa, deputy director of Russian edition of Scientific American Alla Mostinskaya
with Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, in his office at the Cosmic Ray Division of YerPhI.
Figure 2. Prof. Sergei Kapitsa, delivering his presentation to the YerPhI staff in the Cosmic Ray Division’s seminar room
Figure 3. Prof. Kapitsa’s chart of the demographic growth (paradigm change)
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