Key facts
- Born
- Lev Andreyevich Artsimovich , 25 February 1909, Moscow , Russian Empire
- Died
- March 1, 1973 (1973-03-01) (aged 64), Moscow, Soviet Union , (Present-day Moscow, Russia)
- Resting place
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Alma mater
- Belarusian State University
- Known for
- Soviet atomic bomb project , Inventor of Tokamak , Uranium enrichment
- Spouse
- Ninel Artsimovich
- Awards
- Lenin Prize (1966) , Hero of Socialist Labor (1969) , USSR State Prize (1971)
- Fields
- Physics
- Institutions
- LFTI , Laboratory No. 2 , Soviet Academy of Sciences
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lev
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- MSU Faculty of Physics
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Notable work
- tokamak
- Doctoral student
- Igor Irodov
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- 1974 CPA 4316.jpg
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- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1909-01-01
- date of death
- 1973-03-01
- name in native language
- Лев Андреевич Арцимович
- Commons category
- Lev Artsimovich
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Encyclopedic overview
Lev Andreyevich Artsimovich (Russian: Лев Андреевич Арцимович, February 25, 1909 – March 1, 1973), also transliterated Arzimowitsch, was a Soviet physicist known for his contributions to the Tokamak— a device that produces controlled thermonuclear fusion power.
Prior to conceiving the idea on nuclear fusion, Artsimovich participated in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and was a recipient of many former Soviet honors and awards.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lev Artsimovich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.