The entire Moscow press today proudly features the news that Prof. Peter Kapitza, the Soviet Jewish scientist, who together with other Jewish intellectuals issued a call last August to the Jews of the world to combat Nazism, has been awarded the Faraday Medal by Britain for his distinguished achievements in the field of physics.
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