Kapitza Club Explained

The Kapitza Club was a group of physicists who met informally in the 1920s and 1930s in Cambridge, England. The group was founded by Russian physicist Peter Kapitza.^[1]

In The Making of the Atomic Bomb, author Richard Rhodes describes the Kapitza Club:

Graham Farmelo describes the founding of the Kapitza Club in The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom:

Notable members and attendees

• Harold D. Babcock (1925)
• P. M. S. Blackett (1924)
• Paul Dirac (1925)
• Douglas Hartree (1924)
• Werner Heisenberg (1925)
• Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner (1924)
• Llewellyn Thomas (1925)^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Jagdish . Mehra. Helmut . Rechenberg. Jagdish Mehra . Helmut Rechenberg . The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: Part 1 The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics 1925–1926 Part 2 The Reception of the New Quantum Mechanics 1925–1926. 28 December 2000. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-0-387-95178-2. 4-.