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    Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: Игорь Васильевич Курчатов; 12 January 1903 – 7 February 1960), was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in...
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  • Kurchatov may refer to one of the following. Igor Kurchatov, the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project Cities named after Igor Kurchatov Kurchatov...
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    Kurchatov (in Kazakh and Russian: Курча́тов) is a town in Abai Region in north-east Kazakhstan. Named after Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, the...
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    It is named after Igor Kurchatov and is located at 1 Kurchatov Square, Moscow. In the Soviet Union it was known as I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic...
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    1983.[citation needed] It was named after Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov. The town of Kurchatov, along with the neighbouring Kursk Nuclear Power Plant,...
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    the STS, was renamed Kurchatov City after Igor Kurchatov, leader of the initial Soviet nuclear programme. The location of Kurchatov city has been typically...
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  • physicist Igor V. Kurchatov.: 230 : xx  For this purpose, the Laboratory No. 2 near Moscow was established under Kurchatov.: 230  Kurchatov was chosen...
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    scope of nuclear-fission physics, and undertook seminars on that topic; Igor Kurchatov and Yulii Khariton were engaged in 1940.: 79–80  In May 1941, Zeldovich...
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    power programme Abdul Qadeer Khan Bertrand Goldschmidt Deng Jiaxian Igor Kurchatov J. Robert Oppenheimer Leo Szilard John von Neumann William Penney, Baron...
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  • territory. The first studies on "Topic 242" began immediately after Igor Kurchatov talked with Andrei Tupolev (then held in late 1954). Tupolev appointed...
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    sufficient resources for research. Due to a crash program directed by Igor Kurchatov (based on spies of the Cambridge Five), the Soviet Union was the second...
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    field. The term "tokamak" was coined in 1957 by Igor Golovin, a student of academician Igor Kurchatov. It originally sounded like "tokamag" ("токамаг")...
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    continuing his leadership of the Institute of Chemical Physics. Physicist Igor Kurchatov asked Khariton to become part of the Soviet atomic project in 1943,...
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    discoveries. He currently holds the post of president of the Kurchatov Institute (named after Igor Kurchatov) and first Secretary (head) of the Civic Chamber of...
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  • Germany Cordell Hull: US secretary of state Ivan Konev: Red Army general Igor Kurchatov: Soviet nuclear physicist Edward R. Murrow: Radio news broadcaster Yoshio...
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  • The Kurchatov Medal, or the Gold Medal in honour of Igor Kurchatov is an award given for outstanding achievements in nuclear physics and in the field of...
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    Malyshev, who later became chief of the Soviet nuclear program alongside Igor Kurchatov.[citation needed] In 1924, Stalin noticed Malenkov and assigned him...
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    the grounds that he was too old. He saw great promise in the young Igor Kurchatov, and placed him in charge of the first nuclear laboratory. During Joseph...
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  • he left the Kurchatov institute to work as the interim deputy minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy. Slavsky joined forces with Igor Kurchatov and a host...
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    was also a pioneer in Soviet accelerator technology. In 1934 he and Igor Kurchatov created a "baby cyclotron", the first "cyclotron" operating outside...
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  • prominent during World War II, when he devised in collaboration with Igor Kurchatov a method of demagnetizing ships to protect them from German naval mines...
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  • where he re-establishes contact. The Soviet head of atomic research Igor Kurchatov monitors the American progress through Fuchs. Following Nazi surrender...
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    turbine engines. The ship was named after Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960). Fizik Kurchatov was one of the Soviet ships which participated in Operation...
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  • (Ларионова Л.А.) – Strela computer development team: 1st degree Igor Tamm: physics Igor Kurchatov: physics Grigori Aleksandrov, Isaak Dunayevsky, and Lyubov...
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  • Igor Nikolaevich Golovin (Russian: Игорь Николаевич Головин; 12 March 1913 – 15 April 1997) was a Russian physicist whose career was spent on the former...
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    connected to Christopher Columbus, Otto Hahn, Irène Joliot-Curie, and Igor Kurchatov; and also cassiopeium (Cp), a name coming from the constellation Cassiopeia...
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  • by Georgy Flyorov: they named the element kurchatovium (Ku), after Igor Kurchatov. IUPAC concluded that credit should be shared, and adopted the LBNL...
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    street in the center of Chelyabinsk. The monuments include a monument to Igor Kurchatov, a nuclear scientist, which opened in 1986 to the 250th anniversary...
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    Grigory Petrovsky, Ivan Tevosian 1959 1 Gleb Krzhizhanovsky 1960 2 Igor Kurchatov, Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin 1961 1 Mikhail Khrunichev 1962 3 Aleksei...
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    the revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky, the nuclear weapon developer Igor Kurchatov, but also foreign politicians Clara Zetkin and Fritz Heckert. The necropolis...
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