Valentin Glushko
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- Born
- 1908-08-20
- Died
- 1989-01-10
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Kosmonavtika
- Termicheskie konstanty veshchestv
- Soviet cosmonautics
- Termodinamicheskie svoĭstva individualʹnykh veshchestv
- Termodinamicheskie i teplofizicheskie svoĭstva produktov sgoranii︠a︡
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
· 2007 · cited 24,820x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,668x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 8,976x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,846x
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Key facts
- Born
- 2 September 1908 ( 1908-09-02 ) , Odessa , Russian Empire , (now Ukraine )
- Died
- 10 January 1989 (1989-01-10) (aged 80), Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Resting place
- Novodevichy Cemetery , Moscow
- Education
- Leningrad State University
- Discipline
- Engineering ( Computer )
- Institutions
- Soviet space program
- Significant design
- Almaz
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Key dates
- Born
- 20 August 1908
- Died
- 10 January 1989
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Odesa
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- physicist
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
Article
Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Russian: Валентин Петрович Глушко; Ukrainian: Валентин Петрович Глушко, romanized: Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
Glushko served as a main designer of rocket engines in the Soviet program during the heights of the Space Race between United States and the Soviet Union, and was the proponent of cybernetics within the space program.
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1908 births1989 deaths20th-century Russian scientists20th-century Ukrainian engineersBurials at Novodevichy CemeteryEarly spaceflight scientistsEmployees of RSC EnergiaEngineers from OdesaFull Members of the USSR Academy of SciencesHeroes of Socialist LabourMembers of the Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union