Isaak Kikoin
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Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin was a Soviet physicist and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
Bust of Isaak Kikoin in Pskov
Lev Artsimovich
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Lev Andreyevich Artsimovich, also transliterated Arzimowitsch, was a Soviet physicist known for his contributions to the Tokamak— a device that produces controlled thermonuclear fusion power.
Isaak Kikoin
…nuclear weapons and assigned him the Uranium enrichment project at this Laboratory No. 2 using the gaseous diffusion method took place under Kikoin while Lev Artsimovich worked on electromagnetic isotope separation. During the Russian Alsos, he went to Germany to locate German knowledge that would prove useful in Soviet…
Artsimovich on a 1974 Soviet commemorative stamp