Yulii Khariton
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Yulii Borisovich Khariton (Russian: Юлий Борисович Харитон; 27 February 1904 – 18 December 1996) was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.[1][2]
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Yulii Khariton | |
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Юлий Харитон | |
Born | (1904-02-27)February 27, 1904 |
Died | December 18, 1996(1996-12-18) (aged 92) |
Siglum | Yu.K |
Citizenship | Russia |
Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, Soviet Union University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Known for | Soviet program of nuclear weapons |
Awards | Hero of Socialist Labour (1949, 1951, 1954) Lenin Prize (1956) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Laboratory No. 2 Institute of Chemical Physics |
Thesis | Scintillation produced by alpha-particles (1928) |
Doctoral advisor | Ernest Rutherford |
Other academic advisors | Abram Ioffe |
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Since the initiation of the Soviet program of developing the atomic bomb by Joseph Stalin in 1943, Khariton was the "chief nuclear weapon designer" and remained associated with the Soviet program for nearly four decades. In honour of the centennial of his birthday in 2004, his image appeared on a Russian postal stamp by the Russian government.[3]