Valery Legasov

Born

September 1, 1936

Died

April 27, 1988 (aged 51)

Known as

chemist, university teacher, physicist, Chernobyl liquidator

Valery Alekseyevich Legasov was a Soviet inorganic chemist, professor at Moscow State University, first deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

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