Yuli Khariton
Yuli Khariton · Science & Medicine
Physicist; chief designer of the Soviet nuclear program
1904, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire — 1996, Sarov, Russia
Saint Petersburg · Cambridge (UK) · Sarov (Arzamas-16)
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Yuli Khariton was a physicist who served as the chief scientific designer of the Soviet nuclear weapons program, directing the secret laboratory at Sarov (Arzamas-16) for decades. He trained under Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory and shaped much of Soviet nuclear physics. His father, journalist Boris Khariton, was Jewish.
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Physicist; chief designer of the Soviet nuclear program
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