Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
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Legasov headed the Soviet response to Chernobyl as the Kurchatov Institute's first deputy director, becoming the face of nuclear catastrophe management in 1986. A chemist and Academy member, he'd testify at the UN before his death in 1989.
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Valery Alekseyevich Legasov was a Soviet inorganic chemist, professor at Moscow State University, first deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
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