Reading comprehension

1. How many professional physicists were there in Russia at the turn of the XXth century?
2. What was young Kapitsa interested in?
3. Why didn’t he enter the University?
4. How long did it take Kapitsa to complete his laboratory course at Cavendish Laboratory?
5. Who took a personal interest in the young Russian student?
6. How did the war influence Kapitsa’s work?
7. What did he prove electrons capable of doing?
8. Make a brief retelling about Pyotr Kapitsa, using active vocabulary.

The Institute of Physical Problems founded by P. Kapitsa in Moscow.