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Dr. Fort’s levitating liquid research started when he heard a talk about Kapitza’s pendulum, named after Pyotr Kapitsa, a Russian physicist who in 1951 described how, if the pendulum were vibrated up and down at the correct frequency, it would remain in the upright configuration indefinitely.

He and his colleagues were inspired by Kapitsa’s pendulum to see whether they could reproduce similar behavior in a liquid.

In 1951, Russian Nobel prizewinning physicist Pyotr Kapitsa described how rapidly shaking a pendulum up and down makes it balance upright rather than swing down to its natural stable position.

This particular lake’s existence, in the vicinity of Vostok Station in East Antarctica, was first postulated in the 1960s by Andrei Kapitsa, a geographer and Antarctic explorer.

This particular lake's existence, in the vicinity of Vostok Station in East Antarctica, was first postulated in the 1960s by Andrei Kapitsa, a geographer and Antarctic explorer.