Igor Kurchatov

Born

January 12, 1903

Died

February 7, 1960 (aged 57)

Known as

physicist, nuclear physicist, university teacher, politician

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was a Soviet physicist who played a central role directing Laboratory No. 2, the research institute of the Soviet nuclear weapons program. He has been called the "father of the Russian atomic bomb".

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