[Kapitsa] Kapica, P. L. [Experiment, Theory, Practice]. Kísérlet, Elmélet, Gyakorlat.

In Hungarian. Translation by Fái György.

Budapest, Gondolat, 1982.
8vo, 612, [4] pp., ill.

In original green cloth and dust jacket. Signed and inscribed to title.
In good condition, lightly rubbed and spotted, small tears to dust jacket edges, private library stamp ‘Ex Libris Biblioteka Yu.P. Lubimova’ to front free endpaper.

One of 3 500 copies published.

Signed and inscribed by a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate Pyotr Kapitsa (Kapitza; 1894-1984): ‘Dorogoi Kate na dobruju / pamiat i luchshimi pozhela - / niiami ot / P. Kapitcy / 10/8/82 / Moskva’ [Dear Kate, in good memory and with best wishes from P. Kapitsa. 10/8/82, Moscow].

This book by Pyotr Kapitsa is the Hungarian translation of his lectures to a general audience, offering a clear and accessible presentation of his experimental research. In addition to these lectures, it includes articles dedicated to prominent figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Ivan Pavlov, and Lev Landau, as well as pieces discussing the future of science and its potential developments. The first edition of the collection was published in 1974, and this Hungarian version was likely based on the third edition from 1981. In 1978, Kapitsa won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering inventions and discoveries in low-temperature physics, and he was also recognized for his long-term leadership in the field. He shared the prize with Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson.
This copy was signed to Hungarian journalist and translator Katalin Lyubimova (née Koncz; b. 1946), the wife of Yuri Lyubimov (1917–2014), the renowned actor and director who founded the internationally acclaimed Taganka Theatre in 1964. The two met during the theater’s tour in Budapest in 1976.
Pyotr Kapitsa was a member of the Taganka Theatre’s artistic council and a close friend of Lyubimov.

We couldn’t trace any copy of this edition outside Hungary.