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Igor Kurchatov
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Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)
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Igor Kurchatov was a Russian physicist, nuclear physicist, university teacher, and politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Russian Academy of Sciences. His field of work included solid-state physics, nuclear physics, and ferroelectricity. He was educated at Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University.
Kurchatov worked for the Ioffe Institute, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute. He participated in the Eastern Front conflict and received several awards, including the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", and the Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol". He was a doctoral advisor to Konstantin Petrzhak and a student of Abram Ioffe.
Born in Sim, Kurchatov died on February 7, 1960, in Moscow, Barvikha. He is buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
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- 1903
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- 1960
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- I︠A︡dernui︠u︡ ėnergii︠u︡--na blago chelovechestva
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- Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications
· 2004 · cited 10,555x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,646x
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells
· 2007 · cited 8,645x
- Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials
· 2011 · cited 6,858x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
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Encyclopedic overview
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: Игорь Васильевич Курчатов; 12 January 1903 [O.S. 30 December 1902] – 7 February 1960) was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. He has been called the "father of the Russian atomic bomb".
As many of his contemporaries in Russia, Kurchatov, initially educated as a naval architect, was an autodidact in nuclear physics and was brought by Soviet establishment to accelerate the feasibility of the "super bomb". Aided by effective intelligence management by Soviet agencies on the American Manhattan Project, Kurchatov oversaw the quick development and testing of the first Soviet nuclear weapon, which was roughly based on the first American device, at Semipalatinsk in the Kazakh SSR in 1949.
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