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.

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

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:

Kapitza Club

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)

Kapitza Club

References

1920s establishments in England

Clubs and societies of the University of Cambridge

History of science and technology in England

History of the University of Cambridge