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Kurchatov Igor Vasilyevich
(January 21 1903 - February 7 1960)
- Date of birth: January 21 1903
- Date of death: February 7 1960
- Travel to Chelyabinsk: guest
- Place of birth: Settlement Simsky plant, Ufa province (now Chelyabinsk region, city of Sim)
- Date of death: Park in Barvikha
- Place of birth: The ashes of I.V. Kurchatov is kept in the Kremlin wall on Red Square in Moscow
- Alma mater: Vernadsky Taurida National University, Petrograd Polytechnic Institute
- Employer: Institute of Physics and Technology, State Defense Committee
- Position: Head of the Physics Department in 1930, scientific supervisor of work on the implementation of the chain reaction of uranium fission ("uranium problem")
- Years of creativity start: 1923
- Years of creativity end: 1956
- Title: Physicist, academician, scientist, founder of the Institute of Atomic Energy
- Achievements: Stalin Prize (1942)
- Spouse: Marina Sinelnikova
- Level of Education: Higher education