Igor Kurchatov
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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
Igor Kurchatov in Leningrad, 1929
Kurchatov. October 1943
Kurchatov at Harwell on 26 April 1956
Kurchatov on a 2003 stamp of Russia.
Kurchatov Institute
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The Kurchatov Institute is Russia's leading research and development institution in the field of nuclear energy. It is named after Igor Kurchatov and is located at 1 Kurchatov Square, Moscow.
Igor Kurchatov
…Russian: Игорь Васильевич Курчатов; 12 January 1903 [O.S. 30 December 1902] – 7 February 1960) 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". Kurchatov graduated Leningrad…
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Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, with the staff of a 1974 magnetic field project
A stand for magnetic systems testing at Kurchatov Institute, photographed in 1986
2018 postage stamp, issued by Russia to the 75th anniversary of the institute