Sitting in the office building provided for him at enormous cost by Britain's Royal Society, Pyotr Kapitsa concealed his cynical amusement over more crocodiles on the wall beside him.Russian Scientist To Attempt To Split Atom -- In a closely guarded laboratory at Cambridge, England, the new Ludwig Mond Laboratory built for Professor P. Kapitsa, the Russian Scientist, to conduct his experiments with the atom, experiments are being carried out which are expected to electrify the scientific world.Where other scientists have been content to produce liquid helium. September 22, 1954.