Yulii Khariton
Russian physicist and scientist
Died aged 92PiscesRussian Empire
Biography
Yulii Borisovich Khariton (Russian: Юлий Борисович Харитон; 27 February 1904 – 18 December 1996) was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
Since the initiation of the Soviet program of developing the atomic bomb by Joseph Stalin in 1943, Khariton was the "chief nuclear weapon designer" and remained associated with the Soviet program for nearly four decades. In honour of the centennial of his birthday in 2004, his image appeared on a Russian postal stamp by the Russian government.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Employers / organisations
- Ioffe Institute
- Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics
- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics
Family
- Parents
- Boris Khariton
Awards & honours (20)
- State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the Red Star
- Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Kurchatov Medal
- Lomonosov Gold Medal
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Lenin Prize
- "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
- Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
- Hero of Socialist Labour
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
- Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"
- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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