Yulii Khariton
Russian physicist
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Yulii Borisovich Khariton was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. Wikipedia
Born: February 27, 1904, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: December 19, 1996 (age 92 years), Sarov, Russia
Education: University of Cambridge (1926–1928), Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (1920–1925), and Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Awards: Hero of Socialist Labour (1949, 1951, 1954) and Lenin Prize (1956)
Parents: Mirra Yakovlevna Burovskaya
Other academic advisors: Abram Ioffe
Thesis: Scintillation produced by alpha-particles (1928)