Igor Kurchatov

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Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)

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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. He has been called the "father of the Russian atomic bomb".

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Igor Kurchatov in Leningrad, 1929

Kurchatov. October 1943

Kurchatov at Harwell on 26 April 1956

Kurchatov on a 2003 stamp of Russia.

Monument to Kurchatov at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site's Central Staff office, 1991.

Awards 23

1957Lenin Prize

1957Leonard Euler Gold Medal

1956Order of Lenin

1954Stalin Prize

1954"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal

1954Hero of Socialist Labour

1953Order of Lenin

1953State Stalin Prize, 1st degree

1951Stalin Prize

1951"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal

1951Hero of Socialist Labour

1951State Stalin Prize, 1st degree

1949Order of Lenin

1949State Stalin Prize, 1st degree

1949"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal

1945Order of Lenin

1945Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1944Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1942State Stalin Prize, 1st degree

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Hero of Socialist Labour

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SiblingBoris Vasilievich Kurchatov

Connected to Igor 6

Semyon BudyonnyAlso won Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol"

Kliment VoroshilovAlso won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal

Lazar KaganovichAlso won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal

Fyodor Ivanovich TolbukhinAlso won Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol"

Igor ShafarevichAlso won Leonard Euler Gold Medal

Lyudmila PavlichenkoAlso won Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol"