Kapitsa may refer to: Andrey Kapitsa (1931–2011), Soviet geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Soviet physicist, Nobel prize winner Sergey Kapitsa (1928–2012), Soviet physicist 3437 Kapitsa (1982 UZ5) - main-belt asteroid discovered in 1982 by L. G. Karachkina, named after Pyotr Kapitsa
See also Kapitsa–Dirac effect