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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.
Yuly Borisovich Khariton (born Feb. 27, 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Dec. 19, 1996, Sarov) was the founder, and head from 1946 to 1992, of the research and design laboratory known variously as KB-11, Arzamas-16, and currently the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, which was responsible for designing the ...
Yulii Khariton (1904-96) Physicist, instrumental in developing Soviet nuclear weapons Yuill Borisovich Khariton, who died on I9 December last year at the age of 92, was a
- David Holloway
- 1997
Learn about the life and achievements of Yuli B. Khariton, the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb." He studied under Ernest Rutherford, directed the Soviet bomb project, and received the Lenin Prize.
Yuli Khariton was a pioneer of Soviet nuclear research and a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb. He worked with Beria, Rutherford, and Hertz, and survived the Stalinist purges and the Nazi occupation of Germany.
Dec 20, 1996 · Yuli B. Khariton, a physicist who oversaw the building of the first Soviet atomic bomb, died yesterday morning at Sarov in central Russia 250 miles east of Moscow. He was 92 and...
One 19 December 1996, Yuli Khariton, one of the fathers of the Soviet nuclear arms program, died at age 92. Khariton was born Feb. 27, 1904 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Khariton was one of the elite group of physicists who, with Igor Kurchatov initiated the Soviet atomic weapons program in the 1940s.
