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Nikolai Tikhomirov

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Russian engineer (1859-1930)

ScientistsLived 1859 to 1930 · aged 71
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Nikolai Ivanovich Tikhomirov was a Russian and Soviet chemical engineer, inventor, founder of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, specialist in rocket technology and one of the inventors of the Katyusha, which he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor. A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him.

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Memorial plate at the Vagankovo CemeteryMemorial plate at the Vagankovo Cemeterylunar impact crater on the Moon's far side named after Tikhomirovlunar impact crater on the Moon's far side named after Tikhomirov

Awards 2

Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour

Scientists born in the 1850s 6

Józef Rostafiński42.9Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey42.7Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth43.0Arthur Berson42.5Leo Anton Karl de Ball43.0Ludwig Struve42.4

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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1859 to 1930 · aged 71
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