Prof. Peter Kapitza, the Moscow Jewish scientist who was recently awarded the highest Soviet prize by the Russian Government and upon whom the Council of Electrical Engineers in England conferred the Faraday Medal, has now won an American patent for an apparatus which is considered an important invention in the world of physics.
The apparatus invented by the Jewish scientist, who is acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists in the world, is important for American industry since it cools gas to extremely low temperature and eliminates the need for compressors in cooling and liquefying gases and provides energy from gas. Liquefied and cooled gases are widely used in industry. By liquefaction huge volumes of gas can be stored in small containers.
Professor Kapitza was one of the Jewish intellectuals who last summer appealed to the Jews of America and the democratic countries to lend maximum support to the Soviet fight against the Nazis at a Moscow rally of prominent Soviet Jewish artists and scientists. He is a leading member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee that was established at that rally.
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