Columbus of the XX century. Slipenchuk M., Shcherbakov A.

Many have never heard about the hero of this book, although he was the son of the great physicist Peter Kapitsa, a famous geographer who contributed to the solution of many scientific problems. Andrei Petrovich Kapitsa managed to make one of the most important geographical discoveries of our time - to predict the existence under the ice of the Antarctica of the Giant freshwater lake, which allows us to rightfully call it “Columbus of the twentieth century.”

about the life of this outstanding scientist, complete travel and searches , losses and acquisitions, says his first detailed biography, which, on the basis of the family archive of A.P. Kapitsa, created Mikhail Slipenchuk and Alexei Shcherbakov.