Yulii Khariton
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Yulii Borisovich Khariton was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
Khariton on a Russian stamp issued on the 100th anniversary of his birth
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
Yulii Khariton
…was used in experimental studies on Soviet and foreign weaponry, while continuing his leadership of the Institute of Chemical Physics. Physicist Igor Kurchatov asked Khariton to become part of the Soviet atomic project in 1943, in Laboratory No. 2 of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In May 1945, as part of a…
Igor Kurchatov in Leningrad, 1929
Kurchatov. October 1943
Kurchatov at Harwell on 26 April 1956
Kurchatov on a 2003 stamp of Russia.