Andrey Kapitsa

Andrey Petrovich Kapitsa (; 9 July 1931 – 2 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica.

Early life Andrey Kapitsa's father was Nobel Prize-winning physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, Kapitsa was the first to suggest the existence of a subglacial lake in this region, which came to be known as Lake Vostok. The lake was named after Vostok Station, which in turn had been named after the Vostok, the 900-ton corvette of the discoverer of Antarctica, Russian explorer Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen. The word восток means "east" in Russian, and the name of the station and the lake also reflects the fact that they are located in the East of Antarctica.

By 1993, the research of Russian and British scientists confirmed the existence of the lake,

Later career Kapitsa was the dean of his alma mater MSU Faculty of Geography in 1966–1970. as well as the theory of natural reasons behind global warming.

Family Father – Pyotr Kapitsa – a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner for his low temperature research, discoverer of superfluidity. Mother – Anna Alekseevna Krylova, daughter of A.N. Krylov. Older brother – Sergey Kapitsa, physicist and demographer, host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible.