Professor P. Kapitsa - Russia's Atom Expert -- Professor Kapitsa, director of the Kapitsa Institute of Physical Problems, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, supervised the construction of three-ton magnet used in the recent discovery in a mountain laboratory in Armenia of a new group of cosmic particles, named "component cosmic ray". - Prof. Kapitsa is a former director of magnetic research at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge where he carried on atomic experiments under the late Lord Rutherford, first atom splitter. August 05, 1952. (Photo by Pictorial Press).