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Biography
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Игорь Курчатов
Real name: Игорь Васильевич Курчатов
(January 8 [21], 1903, Simsk Plant, Ufa Province - February 7, 1960, Moscow)Soviet physicist, "father" of the Soviet atomic bomb. Founder and first director of the Institute of Atomic Energy from 1943 to 1960, chief scientific director of the atomic problem in the USSR, one of the founders of the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1943).